Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:48:33 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files |
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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 - 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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