Re: cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 12:50 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> another example would be that I insert a disc, say with 159000 sectors and
> I'm able to read from it just fine.  I make the above mistake but I insert a
> disc with 200,000 sectors.  The disc will be reported with 159000 instead of
> the correct 200,000 sectors and some files will not be readable.  Again,
> rmmod and modprobe sr_mod fixes the problem.


That one I have seen with some broken media monitoring software that
never closes the file handle. What occurs then is that we don't for some
reason alway see a media change.

Is this SATA or SCSI proper ?

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