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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ide-cd: document capacity hack
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:18:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902182018.52195.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ide-cd: document capacity hack

Just copy the comment from drivers/scsi/sr.c::sr_done()
(from which the capacity hack has been originated).

Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ static void cdrom_analyze_sense_data(ide
 			bio_sectors = max(bio_sectors(failed_command->bio), 4U);
 			sector &= ~(bio_sectors - 1);
 
+			/*
+			 * The SCSI specification allows for the value
+			 * returned by READ CAPACITY to be up to 75 2K
+			 * sectors past the last readable block.
+			 * Therefore, if we hit a medium error within the
+			 * last 75 2K sectors, we decrease the saved size
+			 * value.
+			 */
 			if (sector < get_capacity(info->disk) &&
 			    drive->probed_capacity - sector < 4 * 75)
 				set_capacity(info->disk, sector);

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 19:18 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-02-18 19:35 ` [PATCH] ide-cd: document capacity hack Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-18 20:38   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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