Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dr. Death wrote:

> Problem:
> 
> I use SuSE Linux 7.2 and when I create md5sums from damaged files on a 
> CD, the WHOLE system  freezes or is ugly slow untill md5 has passed the 
> damaged part of the file !
> 

So what do you suggest? You can see from the logs that the device
is having difficulty  reading your damaged CD. You can do what
Windows-95 does (ignore the errors and pretend everything is fine),
or what Windows-98 and Windows-2000/Prof does (blue-screen, and re-boot),
or you can try like hell to read the files like Linux does. What do you
suggest?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.