Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 May 2002 08:40:46 -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 Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:26:46AM -0700, Stephen Samuel wrote: > I ran a similar type of test on a 2.4.9.31 (redhat 7.1 ) kernel. > With the CD on HDD, I could read off of HDA just peachy while > the system was choking on a scratched (aol) cd. > > I did a WC of a 300MB file (only 256MB of ram on the system, > so that's guaranteed to not fit in any cache). > > Times to read the file were statistically equivalent whether > the system was choking on the CD or not.
Great, can you post the lspci output for your IDE chipset(s)? - 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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