Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:35:55AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> Basically it is a global design flaw from the beginning, and since I have
> only 2.4 to address it is a real nasty!  Short version, each subdriver
> personally does not do unique error handling.  Thus a the simple good/bad
> approach to a darwin world has come to bite hard now.  There is a failure
> to address error/sense decoding based on the operations requested to
> perform.  Second the mainloop is ATA/IDE centered for all events and this
> is in proccess to be fixed for 2.4 soon.  Third requires all ATAPI to
> decode wrt to primary opcode executed and sense of the preferred event
> tables and not the generic catch all.
>
> It is a blood mess, and difficult to describe over email :-/ (for me).
>

Ok, so there is hope for a fix.  Andre, when you have the patches available,
I'm sure meny people from this thread would be willing to help test, just
announce.

Is there a place where you keep your latest patches with a little
documentation on the purpose of the changes?

> Cheers,
> 
> Andre Hedrick
> LAD Storage Consulting Group
> 
> PS Mike, "Mr. Hedrick" was my genetic donor, "Andre" is what I answer too.
> 

??  I think you're thinking of someone else.  Read below, I addressed you as
"Andre", and IIRC always have.  I understand personally the "genetic donor"
problem though. 

Mike

> > Also, can someone say for sure (Andre) that this is a hardware limitation,
> > not a Linux IDE locking problem, and with no possibility of a software
> > work-around? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Mike