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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:10:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146762658.22308.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504165055.GA22880@animx.eu.org>

On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 12:50 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> another example would be that I insert a disc, say with 159000 sectors and
> I'm able to read from it just fine.  I make the above mistake but I insert a
> disc with 200,000 sectors.  The disc will be reported with 159000 instead of
> the correct 200,000 sectors and some files will not be readable.  Again,
> rmmod and modprobe sr_mod fixes the problem.


That one I have seen with some broken media monitoring software that
never closes the file handle. What occurs then is that we don't for some
reason alway see a media change.

Is this SATA or SCSI proper ?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04 12:32 cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system Herbert Rosmanith
2006-05-04 12:45 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-05-04 12:56   ` Herbert Rosmanith
2006-05-04 14:41   ` Joseph Cheek
2006-05-04 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-04 14:14   ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-04 15:28     ` Alan Cox
2006-05-04 17:54       ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-04 16:50   ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-04 17:10     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-04 17:27       ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-04 20:47         ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-05  0:10           ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-05  0:20             ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-04 20:56   ` kernel keeps empty CDROM(DVD)-drive "busy"; (was Re: cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system) Linda Walsh

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