Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

From: Boris Petkov
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 08:43:23 EST


On 2/14/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> >
> > [Added Bart to CC]
> >
> > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
> > > > > sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.
> > > >
> > > > ^^^^
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
> > > > ancient - from Sep. 2006.
> > >
> > > Sure, sorry. Here we go:
> > >
> > > Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01).
> > > Trying to recover by ending request.
> > > Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01).
> > > Trying to recover by ending request.
> > >
> > > ~> uname -a
> > > Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still using the
> > old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into mainline before
> > the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 2.6.25-rc1
> > or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous materials
> > such as an -rc kernel[*] :).
> >
> > Bart?
> >
> > *. As a matter of fact it runs quite smoothly on my machines.
>
> 2.6.25-rc1-git1 if you are using IDE.
>
> however it may still have this problem
>
> if (ireason == 0) {
> write = 1;
> xferfunc = HWIF(drive)->atapi_output_bytes;
> } else if (ireason == 2 || (ireason == 1 &&
> (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq)))) {
>
> we problably need to call ide_cd_check_ireason() also for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC
> requests and remove (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq) here
>
> write = 0;
> xferfunc = HWIF(drive)->atapi_input_bytes;
> } else {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: %s: The drive "
> "appears confused (ireason = 0x%02x). "
> "Trying to recover by ending request.\n",
> drive->name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
> goto end_request;
> }
>
> Bart
>
Hans-Peter,

i will prepare a patch against 2.6.24 for you to try later.

Thanks,
Boris.
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