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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 25 February 2008, Brad Rosser wrote:

[...]

> Bart wrote:
> 
> > 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. ]
> 
> I tried to apply the patch but failed; I probably did something wrong.
> I deleted everything in your message above 'Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c'
> and ran 'patch --dry-run -b -p1 < ../bart_patch'.  This is part of my script
> log:
> 
> root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# pwd
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2
> root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# cat ../bart_patch
> 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
> ...
> ...
> root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# patch --dry-run -b -p1 < ../bart_patch
> patching file drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 670.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 701.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 1074.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 1104.
> 4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/ide/ide-cd.c.rej

Same command works just fine for me with 2.6.25-rc2/3.

It could be that the patch got damaged somewhere on the way
(to eleminate this possibility I'm attaching it to this mail).

Thanks,
Bart

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---
 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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