Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

From: matthieu castet
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 13:27:26 EST


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 all the sectors around an error, ide-scsi gets it
right if the IDE firmware does. I sent Bartlomiej patches to fix that
and I believe he accepted them

thanks,

they don't seem to be in his tree : http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fbart%2Fide-2.6.git&a=search&s=ide-cd :(

Matthieu
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