Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
matthieu castet wrote: Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-07-02 at 15:14, matthieu castet wrote: Also I was wondering if all the sector that ide-cd failed to read are bad sector, or if ide-cd failed to put the drive in a consistent state for reading the next sector after corrupted one.

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-05 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 02 July 2005 17:14, matthieu castet wrote: > IIRC on 2.4 kernel there wasn't such problem, I even managed to recover > some damaged disk... Oh on some 2.4 the kernel would retry each sector so many times that recovering undamaged sectors from a CD would have taken longer than the MTB

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-05 Thread matthieu castet
Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-07-02 at 15:14, matthieu castet wrote: Also I was wondering if all the sector that ide-cd failed to read are bad sector, or if ide-cd failed to put the drive in a consistent state for reading the next sector after corrupted one. ide-cd wrongly errors a

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-07-02 at 15:14, matthieu castet wrote: > Also I was wondering if all the sector that ide-cd failed to read are > bad sector, or if ide-cd failed to put the drive in a consistent state > for reading the next sector after corrupted one. ide-cd wrongly errors all the sectors around an