On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:

> > Asking me to make it so you or anyone else can bypass
> > copy-content-protection is out of the question.  If you do not ask the
> > device to do bad things, then it will not do bad things back at you.
> 
> Nobody asked you to bypass the protection, only to sanely error out when 
> it is found.  Refusing to read the disk is ok, but allowing the system 
> to crash is not.

I thought I specified what was need to decode the issue, maybe since there
are two multiple threads now I have lost track of which one I am
responding.  Thus I will repeat in this thread.

True, however since I suspect the device was attempting to thwart and
crash the system, until a trace of the sense data returns from the device
and the re-action of the kernel to those target responses, not much can be
done to prevent such a crash.

Cheers,


Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group


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