Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030245AbWEDQ7p (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 12:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030246AbWEDQ7p (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 12:59:45 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21191 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030245AbWEDQ7o (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 12:59:44 -0400 Subject: Re: cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system From: Alan Cox To: Wakko Warner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060504165055.GA22880@animx.eu.org> References: <200605041232.k44CWnFn004411@wildsau.enemy.org> <1146750532.20677.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060504165055.GA22880@animx.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:10:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1146762658.22308.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 19 On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 12:50 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > another example would be that I insert a disc, say with 159000 sectors and > I'm able to read from it just fine. I make the above mistake but I insert a > disc with 200,000 sectors. The disc will be reported with 159000 instead of > the correct 200,000 sectors and some files will not be readable. Again, > rmmod and modprobe sr_mod fixes the problem. That one I have seen with some broken media monitoring software that never closes the file handle. What occurs then is that we don't for some reason alway see a media change. Is this SATA or SCSI proper ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/