A direct disc://→mkv:// single-pass rip drives fill_extents in
skip_errors mode. On a read failure it shrank the batch, retried, and
once bottomed out zero-filled + skipped the unit and continued. A SCSI
transport failure (status=0xFF) is a USB-bridge crash, NOT a skippable
bad sector: the bridge is wedged and every subsequent read fails the
same way. So the loop marched the entire disc at one ~15s bridge-
recovery per probe, producing no MKV — the user-reported 'hundreds of
0x28/0xff warnings, runs forever, Movie.mkv never created'.
Fix: short-circuit to an error on transport failure before any
shrink/skip, even under skip_errors — mirroring the multipass sweep's
transport-failure rule in read_error::handle_read_error. The CLI
surfaces it so the user power-cycles the drive or switches to multipass
recovery. Regression test asserts exactly one read is issued and no skip
is counted (no infinite march).
Matthew Jackson
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