Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Apr 28 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 08:19:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, with 'retries' I mean waiting retries. The command does expire
> > and ide-cd notices it just doesn't put an upper bound on how long it
> > waits.  A minute or so should suffice, unless the caller specifies
> > otherwise.
> 
> Can we poke the IDE drive is it's hung or reset it in these cases?  I
> wonder more in the general case where I've had to reboot because the
> burner went nuts for some reason...

Drive needs to be reset. Something like this should be all that's
needed.

===== drivers/ide/ide-cd.c 1.81 vs edited =====
--- 1.81/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c	Mon Apr 26 22:56:10 2004
+++ edited/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c	Thu Apr 29 08:29:07 2004
@@ -844,7 +844,6 @@
 		case GPCMD_FORMAT_UNIT:
 		case GPCMD_RESERVE_RZONE_TRACK:
 		case GPCMD_CLOSE_TRACK:
-		case GPCMD_FLUSH_CACHE:
 			wait = ATAPI_WAIT_PC;
 			break;
 		default:

-- 
Jens Axboe