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SubjectRe: ide-cd.c, "MEDIUM_ERROR" handling
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On Llu, 2006-04-17 at 20:18 -0500, Zinx Verituse wrote:
> I recently bought a DVD drive which appears to not retry enough when it's
> having trouble reading a disc

Different to everything else I've ever met. You might want to check if
its got PC firmware or is actually from a set of drives that were meant
to be supplied in DVD players and similar.

> With this code enabled, no retries are made, and the kernel sees medium errors
> and returns bad data to the application reading; without it, the kernel retries
> transparently and reads the data perfectly. So, I think the comment is
> assuming decent hardware, which unfortunately isn't always what we have :/

Use ide-scsi or the new libata drivers, either will do retries on medium
errors.

Alan
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