Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ide-cd.c, "MEDIUM_ERROR" handling | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:04:40 +0100 |
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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.
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