Bug#444734: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: pcd module brings system to its knees

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:04:13AM +0800, clayton wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
> Version: 2.6.21-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I have an old HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 7200e CD parallel 
> interface CD burner that some years back used to work just fine with 
> Debian. I just dusted it off, and the drivers fail badly.
> 
> When I manually load the "pcd" driver, I hear the drive spinning, then 
> an "events" process quickly grabs 99+% of CPU and the whole system 
> becomes so sluggish that I barely retain sufficient control to type halt 
> in a terminal. The halt process was so slow that I finally had to power 
> down.
> 
> Unplugging the external drive has no effect, suggesting that something 
> in the driver is spinning.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If so, can you rule out that the hardware is broken?

Cheers,
        Moritz