Hello,
The hangup is due to IDE device not returning answers (only "seems there is an error" notifications) and kernel having to wait for real error to come back. The IDE bus the device is connected to, is blocked as well (as not on FireWire or SCSI buses).
You can use dd_rescue (with big fallback block to speed up recovery) to recover data, but you can't tell to CDROM to stop block reading attempts after some time.
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ik wrote:
Hi list,
I mounted a cdrom, and wanted to read it content, but the kernel reported about some bad sectors... The content of the cdrom are images, and i could not kill the imagemagic "display" program, nor umount the cdrom. And every action I did try to do, hand the system, until I exit the xserver and kill some processes and used the "eject" program as well.
Is there a way to tell the kernel to stop reading the drives when it finds so many errors and so many problems ? If so, how can I do it ?
Thank you for the help,
Ido
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