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From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NEC ND-4550A problems reading DVD-R
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:47:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6D151D.8030307@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6CF92A.4020105@teksavvy.com>

On 03/01/2011 08:48 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 11-03-01 03:01 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> ..
>    
>> I think that's determined by drivers/scsi/sr.h::SR_TIMEOUT which is
>> hardcoded to be 30 seconds.  Maybe it's better to move it to use the
>> block parameter.  Anyways, the drive actually takes longer than 30secs
>> to recognize the media?
>>      
> That slow behaviour is not uncommon, especially as drives struggle
> to recognize various forms of copy-protected media (DVD-Video).
> A longer default, or tuneable timeout, would help.
>
> Cheers
>
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>    
I agree with Mark, this should be a user tuneable value. My 2006 LG 
dvd-rw frequently times out
trying to identify the media. But after numerous timeout error messages 
it usually suceeds.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28 21:36 Krzysztof Halasa
2011-03-01  8:01 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 10:01   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2011-03-01 13:48   ` Mark Lord
2011-03-01 15:47     ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2011-03-04 11:07       ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 14:09         ` Stephen Clark
2011-03-04 22:16         ` Jens Axboe

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