Topic: Kernel 2.4.20-18.7 panics writing to CD burner randomly

[eake]

I am trying to write to a CD using cdrecord 1.10.  I have lLILO set with the 'append "hdc=ide-scsi"' line so I can talk to the burner using the ide-scsi driver.  Most of the time it works but sometimes it panics the machine and it is dead until reboot.  The kernel is a stock 2.4.20-18.7 version.

I tried increasing the timeout from 40 to 60 seconds and that seemed to help but it still is locking up.

Going to SME 7 will happen but I have to get this stable to support a new platform now.

Is there a newer kernel that I could drop in or patches to the ide-scsi driver to try?

-Earle Ake

[marsa_matruh]

Newer kernel is available on fedoralegacy.org. Maintenance team is trying to add it to the update repository of SME 6.0. However, there are several problems and no delay can be announced. Write a bug report.

[eake]

Do you have a suggestion for which kernel may fix it?  I am interested in dropping in a newer kernel but without the dependency problems.  The perfect solution is just a newer ide-scsi.c since I am using this as a module already.  Should I just go with a newer kernel source and pull out ide-scsi.c and compile it for the 2.4.20 kernel?  I doubt there is a distribution just for that module.

[kruhm]

mastersleepy has a howto to upgrade the kernel here: http://vanhees.homeip.net/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

i used the kernel-2.4.26 as the 2.4.27 didn't work for me.

gook luck

[eake]

I installed and am testing the 2.4.26 kernel right now.  So far, so good.  I am currently running a test to format and write many tracks on the CD to see if it panics.  Thanks for the pointers.