Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758898AbXKQLfg (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:35:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753880AbXKQLf2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:35:28 -0500 Received: from b73.evanzo-server.de ([87.238.198.73]:42660 "EHLO s8073.evanzo-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbXKQLf1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:35:27 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 403 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:35:27 EST From: Tobias To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:29:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711171229.22257.kaminsky@finswimmer.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 14 If you are accessing a scratched Video DVD and the device cannot read it, the process ends. What about a more tolerant way to handle unreadable blocks. Especially on Video DVDs single blocks are not that important than on data dvds. So is there a way that the kernel tells the device to skip these bad blocks? Tobias - 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/