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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #535

Comment 535 for bug 620074

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In , kernel (kernel-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #521)
> I have a reproducible test sequence for a 12309. It's easy:
>
> Take a _SCRATCHED_ DVD. Put it into the drive and copy all files on it to a
> HDD. The bug comes early :)
>
> The system freezes COMPLETELY at the time the drive read a scratched sectors.

I suspect this has more to do with the IDE bus than with the interaction between the kernel's block layer and the VM.

Try this:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null bs=2048

I bet you get the same freezes when it reaches the scratches.