[plug] kill them dead

[Arie Hol]

On 14 Oct 2006 at 10:02, Adrian Chadd wrote:

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> > At least you can mount NFS with the 'intr' option. But when a process
> > can only be killed by a power-cyle, I call that a bug. e.g. I/O 
driver
> > blocking on media errors. But then, IANAKP.
> 
> Ah, but is the media error recoverable or not? :)
> 
> Yes, it probably should be interruptable. But, can you actually -abort- 
a
> media operation? Does the hardware let you? Will you be in a consistent
> state if you do? Its not always immediately obvious. If its the device
> that locks up during an operation should you abort the process' 
operation
> and silently fail all subsequent attempts at device IO? I don't think
> thats the "unix" way.. 
> 

It may not be the fault of Linux....

There could be a problem with the optical drive - or the drive may have a 
problem with certain types of media.

When you have the problem - are you trying to read commercially produced 
discs or burnt copies ??????????           :-)

If they are burnt copies - then you may need to use another approach.

Have you considered checking for a firmware update for the drive that you 
are using ???



Regards Arie
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