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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:19:42
Message-Id: 768326e7-22a7-312f-0b41-5801cf789f5c@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors? by Joerg Schilling
1 On 12/4/18 3:31 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
2 > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> So as usual, they are not very Linux friendly.  Figures.  I was hoping
5 >
6 > The main problem with Linux is that the drivers at SCSI level in the kernel are
7 > worse than they could be, so if you like to get better results, you should
8 > encourage the kernel people to do their homework.
9 >
10 > One of the biggest problem on Linux is e.g. that the SCSI drivers only return
11 > 16 bytes of error information, but the standard says that the error information
12 > contains at least 18 bytes.
13
14 That's good to know. Are there any open source OSes that do it properly?
15 I'd love to look at their code.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors? Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>