Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:34:51 +0100 | From | Just Marc <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] readahead: backoff on I/O error |
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Hi,
>Well, it looks like I'm the only one in this world who's drive was >fired this way... ;) Note it's a combination of two issues: it's >definitely a buggy firmware (or hardware) - it should not fire, >no matter how you're hitting it from software - and the readahead+ >EIO logic. So.. well, I don't want to try another drive really, >but it *seems* like it will eventually "recover". Not that it's >possible still to watch a DVD with a single scratch (one unreadable >block) anyway with current code (it will freeze and freeze and freeze >again and again), but well, it's not really THAT critical. My drive >is already dead, nothing worse can happen to it anyway ;)
I'm pretty sure you're not the only one, I have had my CD/DVD drive *obsessively* try to read from a bad CD/DVD (or just a badly scrached area on the disc), bringing the system to an unusable state and not even stopping in reasonable time (minutes, at least), I was forced to power cycle the laptop in all of these cases.
Marc
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