I've had a problems burning DVD's in linux-2.6.0-test11 using the ide-cd 
driver.

The DVD writing tool, growisofs, attempts to read the blank disk before 
it writes the new data. The drive responds to the read request on blank 
DVD-R's by returning a "blank media" error. The kernel doesn't have any 
special case handling for this sense value and retries the request a 
couple of times, then gives up and does a bus reset and disables DMA to 
the device. Here is the log:

hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x80LastFailedSense 0x08
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x80LastFailedSense 0x08
hdd: DMA disabled
hdd: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
hdd: ATAPI reset complete

The same thing occurs if I simply try "mount /dev/dvd" on a DVD-R blank.

The sense key value of 8 isn't listed in ide-cd.h, but it is listed in 
scsi.h as a "BLANK_CHECK" error.

I took a look at the code in ide-cd.c and developed the patch attached. 
This handles treats this error condition as a reason to abort the 
request. This behaviour is the same as when I try to do the same thing 
on another drive with a CD-R blank.

With this patch I just get a single "blank media" error, but no bus 
reset and DMA is left enabled. This makes DVD writing with ide-cd work 
well for me.

It looks like the same fix might be desired for 2.4 as well, although is 
perhaps not so important since scsi-ide is normally used instead.

Does the patch look correct?
Should it be applied to 2.6?

Please CC me on any response.

Thanks,
    Jon