From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drake Subject: Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:33:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4729F1BB.20306@gentoo.org> References: <47274A5F.6070409@gentoo.org> <20071030153417.59b9182c@the-village.bc.nu> <47276DCA.1000808@gentoo.org> <20071030190153.373c9347@the-village.bc.nu> <47278439.4030801@gentoo.org> <20071031114958.210bd7cc@the-village.bc.nu> <20071031115754.GK5059@kernel.dk> <4729A0DF.20800@garzik.org> <20071101105335.1f20bab3@the-village.bc.nu> <4729B3EA.6040707@garzik.org> <20071101141501.3746cec2@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp121.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.121]:39927 "EHLO smtp121.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753711AbXKAPd3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:33:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071101141501.3746cec2@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Jens Axboe , linux list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Albert Lee Alan Cox wrote: > Lots of *other* problems occur instead. Daniel is reporting that if he > makes a stupid request to a buggy drive he gets a reset and the system > continues happily. Even that reset being a reset not a new command issue > is actually us being excessively paranoid. Sorry if I'm sprouting nonsense here -- I don't have the knowledge that you all do. However, just wanted to point out that I looked up the info about that mode page in the MMC specs. http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/mmc4/mmc4r05a.pdf page 513. "E.3.3 MM Capabilities and Mechanical Status Page (Page Code 2Ah)" The length of this mode page varies from drive to drive, so there is no "one size" that you can supply to the SG_IO command (unless you want to use a stupidly large buffer) to retrieve all the data at once. Instead, as Tejun describes, you put a short read request in first, look at byte 1 of the page which tells you the length, and then read the whole lot. Again, ignore me if I'm not contributing anything useful, but I'm increasingly thinking that the SG_IO command block in question is perfectly valid, and doing a short read of the mode page in question (and probably others too) is in fact required before you can know its true size to do a full read anyway. Thanks, Daniel