Damn cdrom devices!

[Vincent Trouilliez]

rodrigochinaski <rodrigo.chinaski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn cdrom devices!
> 
> One thing that really sucks on linux happen when you get a read error at
> your cd/dvd media, and then it keeps trying to read forever, never
> releasing the drive. You just have to reboot the damn thing. Does
> anybody else have this problem too?

Yep !
No later than yesterday ! I had a bad Edgy DVD. Before installing Edgy,
I ran the CD integrity check, after a minute, the progress bar stopped
half-way, but otherwise no sign of any problem. It's only after 1
( minutes of waiting, that I tried my chance at changing virtual
console (I was using the text installer), and and bingo, on VT3 I had
the kernel messages, bags of buffer or I/O pr something errors ! I am
pretty sure it would have sat there for hours indeed, had I not
rebooted it ! I also have a SCSI CD writer, and often got I/O errors,
but they were handled better: after only a few tries/seconds, the
kernel would give up.


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Vince