Re: unable to use cdrom/dvd drive after some usage

[Johnny Luong <johnny.linux-ide@compfazed.com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:01:42PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:46:08 -0800
> > Johnny Luong <johnny.linux-ide@compfazed.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If possible, I would like to know if its worthwhile simply just to get another
> >> SATA drive / different controller / cable rather than trying to figure out
> >> this PATA drive on SATA/PATA controller...  see attached for bug report and
> >> config file.  I'm not on this email list so if you can CC that would be 
> >> appreciated.
> > 
> > I don't think so. Wine seems to have fed the drive a command that upset
> > it to the point it needed power cycling. That may also however be a
> > drive/controller that don't know how to clear data stuck after a wrong
> > transfer length from an application. In that case 2.6.24-rc6 (or 2.6.24
> > once out) may actually fix the problem.
> > 
> > If it doesn't then we need to look at it further and find out what is
> > going on to crash the drive.
> 
> Another possibility is that the drive requires DEVICE RESET to clear its
> FIFO or whatever.  I'm working on DEVICE RESET.  Will post patch soon.
> Johnny, please hold on to the hardware for testing.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun

Since it may be a software issue, I've simply kept the drive in place.
I did upgrade to 2.6.24-rc8 a couple of days ago though and haven't 
seen that strange HSM error.  

Thanks for the help,
-Johnny