Control: severity -1 minor On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:21:13 -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: cdck > Version: 0.7.0-5 > Severity: serious Ehm, are you sure about the severity? > On this machine, cdck gives this verdict for the second of a series > of 10 home-made DVDs that contain personal videos: > >CD overall: > > Sectors total: 2295104: > > Good sectors: 2295088: > > Bad sectors (incl. with poor timing): 16 [..] > >Conclusion: > > Disc contains BAD or even unreadable sectors, put it into trash can! > This install clearly has problems reading optical discs. Ok, so cdck's output about 16 bad sectors is not implausible, correct? > From these, the disk is only BAD in case 3.1. And even if there are > actually BAD sectors on the disc, that doesn't mean all sectors are > bad. Right, and in the output above we see 2295088 good and 16 bad sectors. > In many cases, discs are the only stores of some data. In these > cases, cdck should instruct to recover the recoverable data and only > then to get rid of the disc. So the issue your pointing at is the output or more precisely the last part "put it into trash can!"? > I agree that a damaged disc should in > general be discarded to avoid giving a false impression that the > data is available, but that's a secondary concern. The primary > concern with a damaged disc should be to save the data which it > uniquely stores. Putting a disk right in the trash can just because > it has bad sectors is likely to cause data loss. I agree that saving data makes more sense than blindly throwing away the disk. And I also see the point that the wording out the output is not optimal; I always interpreted it as colloquial / tongue-in-cheek. I hope you can agree that throwing away a disk is still the owner's decision and responsibility and not the one of a piece of software that write a slightly sloppy message to the screen :) I'm happy to treat this as a language problem and to either drop the "trash can" part or replace it with something like "you might want to save data from it" or something similar. -- Severity adjusted accordingly. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: The Eagles: James Dean
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