Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>
>>Andre Hedrick wrote:
>>
>>>So could you ask the question a little more blunt?
>>>
>>>"Gee, I am trying to break a US Law on content protection, would you
be my
>>>enabler? Don't worry, it only effects the US, and we are in a public
>>>forum. Also, do you prefer gray or black in your future pin stripped
>>>suit?"
>>
>>Attempting to read a "defective" disc should never, ever, cause a kernel
>>oops. Whether it succeeds or not is irrelevant.
>
>
> Please point out where in the original post, the referrence to
"defective"
> media. If this would have been the case, your point it valid. If I
> missed something, thus am wrong, I will admit to being wrong.
Copy-protected discs abuse the CD standards to the point where CDROM
drives consider them defective and can't/won't read them, while less
intelligent devices can. Trying to read one of these discs should only
cause the kernel to return an error, never an oops.
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