Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:22:19 -0400 | From | Kent Borg <> | Subject | Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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