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) ) -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
