"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> FWIW, I'm skeptical of Nate's claim that excessive I/O
Andrew> errors must bring down the system. I'm certainly not a
Andrew> kernel hacker, but I see no reason why the kernel couldn't
Andrew> do what it does in othe
On Monday 04 November 2002 09:59 am, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:58:07AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> > > I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux.
> > > I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:58:07AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
>
> > I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux.
> > I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always
> > result in trouble but I expected the kernel to
At 14:50 Uhr +0100 04.11.2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux.
I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always
result in trouble but I expected the kernel to react differently.
(Or is this a limitation of x86 or the issue you
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux.
> I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always
> result in trouble but I expected the kernel to react differently.
> (Or is this a limitation of x86 or the issue you men
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-11-2002 13:28]:
> > I was able to mount the cdrom and use tab-completion to get to the
> > directory on the cdrom using cp. However after entering, the system
> > crashed (leds on keyboard flashing, hard boot required).
> What kind of mobo & chipset do you hav
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:09, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> Tonight I tried to copy the contents of a cdrom to a local
> filesytem as root.
>
> I was able to mount the cdrom and use tab-completion to get to the
> directory on the cdrom using cp. However after entering, the system
> crashed (leds on keyb
Michael P. Soulier said:
>Would not desirable behaviour be to log as many errors as possible,
>but
> recover from the hardware problem? I see no reason why any software, user
> space or kernel space, should crash due to errors in a peripheral. Bad
> RAM is one thing, but errors on a CD? I
On 03/11/02 nate did speaketh:
> it is not unusual, I have seen this happen on many operaitng systems
> especially with CD-R media. the result would of been the same if
> you were not root. Probably the system filled with I/O errors and
> couldn't continue. The software has only limited resources
Robert Ian Smit said:
> It's not really a very big issue, but I was amazed to see this
> happen?
it is not unusual, I have seen this happen on many operaitng systems
especially with CD-R media. the result would of been the same if
you were not root. Probably the system filled with I/O errors and
Tonight I tried to copy the contents of a cdrom to a local
filesytem as root.
I was able to mount the cdrom and use tab-completion to get to the
directory on the cdrom using cp. However after entering, the system
crashed (leds on keyboard flashing, hard boot required).
After booting I took out th
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