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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 24 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:38:34PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:

[...]

> > kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason =
> > 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
> > last message repeated 3 times
> > kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> > kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

[...]

> > When I saw the recent message from Hans-Peter Jansen about this exact
> > problem, and Boris's comment that something in interrupt land for the
> > CD driver had been fixed, I thought the latest version of the kernel would
> > rectify matters.  I installed the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel from kernel.org
> > but the problem
> > is still there.

Does the following patch help?

[ It makes ireason handling for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC requests be the same as
  for other request types so "ireason == 1" quirk is used if needed. ]

---
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c |   24 ++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -670,8 +670,8 @@ static void cdrom_buffer_sectors (ide_dr
  * and attempt to recover if there are problems.  Returns  0 if everything's
  * ok; nonzero if the request has been terminated.
  */
-static
-int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *drive, int len, int ireason, int rw)
+static int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq,
+				int len, int ireason, int rw)
 {
 	/*
 	 * ireason == 0: the drive wants to receive data from us
@@ -701,6 +701,9 @@ int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *dr
 				drive->name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
 	}
 
+	if (rq->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC)
+		rq->cmd_flags |= REQ_FAILED;
+
 	cdrom_end_request(drive, 0);
 	return -1;
 }
@@ -1071,11 +1074,11 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_newpc_intr(
 	/*
 	 * check which way to transfer data
 	 */
-	if (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq)) {
-		if (ide_cd_check_ireason(drive, len, ireason, write))
-			return ide_stopped;
+	if (ide_cd_check_ireason(drive, rq, len, ireason, write))
+		return ide_stopped;
 
-		if (blk_fs_request(rq) && write == 0) {
+	if (blk_fs_request(rq)) {
+		if (write == 0) {
 			int nskip;
 
 			if (ide_cd_check_transfer_size(drive, len)) {
@@ -1101,16 +1104,9 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_newpc_intr(
 	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)))) {
+	} else {
 		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;
 	}
 
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