Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files

[Kent Borg]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:14:41AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dr. Death wrote:
> 
> > Problem:
> > 
> > I use SuSE Linux 7.2 and when I create md5sums from damaged files on a 
> > CD, the WHOLE system  freezes or is ugly slow untill md5 has passed the 
> > damaged part of the file !
> > 
> 
> So what do you suggest? You can see from the logs that the device
> is having difficulty  reading your damaged CD. You can do what
> Windows-95 does (ignore the errors and pretend everything is fine),
> or what Windows-98 and Windows-2000/Prof does (blue-screen, and re-boot),
> or you can try like hell to read the files like Linux does. What do you
> suggest?

You didn't ask me, but I would still suggest that it would be nice if
the whole system didn't come to a near halt.

-kb, the Kent who wonders of the preemption patch might help here.