Re: NEC ND-4550A problems reading DVD-R

[Mark Lord]

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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