Reading within 160 KB of the end-of-track causes pandemonium.
For those unfamiliar with CDROM media, reading past end-of-track (in TAO
recordings) triggers a hard error from the drive. For SAO, the error
occurs at the end of the last track of the session.
Through 2.4.9, Linux readahead is about 2 sectors, error recovery takes
a second, and DMA settings are preserved. Even that readahead glitch
can be avoided by lightly padding the end of a track during a burn.
CDROM support in 2.4.10 has taken a giant step into the toilet, and
effectively breaks existing CDROMs. Reading within 80 CDROM sectors
causes a boatload of error messages, minutes of delay, ATAPI resets,
loss of DMA settings. I count 15 ATAPI resets when there should be 0.
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