DVD Drive Hang

Colin Charles lists at bytebot.net
Tue Nov 23 15:14:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:59 -0700, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> When reading a DVD with scratches the drive hangs for a very long
> time, and doesn't seem to be right again until after a reboot.  Is
> there any way to make a read give up?  Ideally, I'd like to do it
> without killing the process that requested the read (i.e. skip over
> part of a movie on a scratched DVD).

Well, what does a ps aux report?

Most likely the dvd app is in D state, waiting for some I/O to happen.
Sadly, not much can be done when the process is waiting for I/O, short
of giving it a jolt (unplugging maybe ;0) )
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