[ILUG] Do not ever do what I've just done, and can someone help me undo it?

[Michael Armbrecht]

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 21:12, Ronan Cunniffe had no problem writing:
> Hi all,
>         I've just managed to wedge my RH7.1 box *solid*.  Not even Ye-Olde
> three fingered salute broke it out.  How did I achieve this?
>
> #cdrecord -speed=4 -dev=0,0 image.iso &
>                                      ^^^ Don't ever do this!
>

Did it, and only way out was to reset the box. No problem though thanks to 
ReiserFS. 

I consider this bad software design (which it is anyways because you have to 
be root to run cdrecord). 

It even completely hung my box when I tried to set only the speed. If I set 
the speed by gcombust, it works, strangely.

I think that in  the CD writing area, on the Linux side lots of bugs have to 
be stomped on.... 

Mick

-- 
Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.
		-- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3220.3