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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 19:19:18 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
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To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: ide-related kernel panic in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre11
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Andre Hedrick wrote:
 > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
 >
 >
 >>Andre Hedrick wrote:
 >>
 >>>So could you ask the question a little more blunt?
 >>>
 >>>"Gee, I am trying to break a US Law on content protection, would you 
be my
 >>>enabler?  Don't worry, it only effects the US, and we are in a public
 >>>forum.  Also, do you prefer gray or black in your future pin stripped
 >>>suit?"
 >>
 >>Attempting to read a "defective" disc should never, ever, cause a kernel
 >>oops.  Whether it succeeds or not is irrelevant.
 >
 >
 > Please point out where in the original post, the referrence to 
"defective"
 > media.  If this would have been the case, your point it valid.  If I
 > missed something, thus am wrong, I will admit to being wrong.

Copy-protected discs abuse the CD standards to the point where CDROM
drives consider them defective and can't/won't read them, while less
intelligent devices can.  Trying to read one of these discs should only 
cause the kernel to return an error, never an oops.

--
				Brian Gerst


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