From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: "Dr. Death" <drd@homeworld.ath.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:22:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020419102219.E21727@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CBEC67F.3000909@filez> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020419100917.724A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:14:41AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dr. Death wrote:
>
> > Problem:
> >
> > I use SuSE Linux 7.2 and when I create md5sums from damaged files on a
> > CD, the WHOLE system freezes or is ugly slow untill md5 has passed the
> > damaged part of the file !
> >
>
> So what do you suggest? You can see from the logs that the device
> is having difficulty reading your damaged CD. You can do what
> Windows-95 does (ignore the errors and pretend everything is fine),
> or what Windows-98 and Windows-2000/Prof does (blue-screen, and re-boot),
> or you can try like hell to read the files like Linux does. What do you
> suggest?
You didn't ask me, but I would still suggest that it would be nice if
the whole system didn't come to a near halt.
-kb, the Kent who wonders of the preemption patch might help here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-19 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-18 13:13 A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files Dr. Death
2002-04-19 14:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-19 14:22 ` Kent Borg [this message]
2002-04-19 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-19 14:50 ` A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damaged files Stephen Satchell
2002-04-19 14:28 ` A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files Darrell Wright
2002-04-19 14:36 ` dr john halewood
2002-04-19 18:00 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-23 22:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-24 12:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-24 19:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-24 19:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-24 22:58 ` Stephen Samuel
2002-04-25 3:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-26 4:04 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-26 5:42 ` Erik Andersen
2002-04-26 7:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-25 20:50 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-28 2:18 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-26 15:48 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-29 21:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-02 3:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-02 8:26 ` Stephen Samuel
2002-05-02 8:49 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-05-02 8:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-05-02 9:12 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-05-02 15:48 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-03 7:14 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-05-02 15:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-02 17:15 ` Stephen Samuel
2002-04-26 15:23 ` Stephen Samuel
2002-04-26 10:16 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-04-19 20:01 ` Erik Andersen
2002-04-21 15:18 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-21 22:54 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2002-04-22 5:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-22 14:49 ` Roger Larsson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-30 21:18 Eric M
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