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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.

  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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