SCSI cd emulation

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:32:12AM +0100, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:

> Thank you Matt.
> Just one more question. 
> 2.6.11 does not hang at boot, but during execution.
> I get a lot of "scheduling while atomic" (or something similar) errors in 
> dmesg, the sistem is slooow and after some time it crashes. gam_server 
> becomes crazy on 2.6.11.
> 
> Is that patch into 2.6.11 too? Does it mean that I (and poeople using the some 
> HW I am using) can't get any future kernel update because of this?
> 
> I'll move the thread to ubuntu-users to ask help in debugging this.Maybe a 
> kernel command line option can be used to prevent libata to detect cdroms as 
> sata devices.

2.6.11 is an experimental kernel package for Ubuntu; it is quite likely that
Hoary will release with 2.6.10.  I recommend using 2.6.10, and when Ubuntu
moves to 2.6.11, we will carry this fix forward if necessary.

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 - mdz