Re: readahead logic and I/O errors

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:53:16AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> Sorry for hijacking the thread, but on another note, is there
> anyway to tell linux to tell the drive to not bother retrying
> read errors? Would be perfect for streaming video from a
> CD or DVD. Usually video players have excellent error
> recovery themselves, which probably looks better on the
> screen than the movie coming to a grinding halt due to
> the retries.

FWIW, ATAPI defines a streaming IO command set, but that isn't uses by
any driver.


Erik

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