Re: New libata PATA patch for 2.6.16-rc1

[Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>]

Prakash Punnoor wrote:

>Am Montag März 13 2006 23:31 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:
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>>Hi,
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>>I tried your ide1 patch with 2.6.16-rc6 and NFORCE2 board, thus using the
>>AMD driver (and sil sata driver).
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>>I will see how the DVD+RW drive behaves and let you know whether it makes
>>troubles. :-)
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>Ok, I am having some troubles burning CDs/DVDs. I am using k3b as front-end 
>and it has troubles to detect the type of disc inserted. If you eg insert a 
>cd-rw the dialog changes the detected medium around (about each second): 
>cd-rom, cd-rw, etc. Same with DVD+R. It detects DVD+R, waiting a second, than 
>appendable DVD+R etc. But then it thinks it is a RW so it wants to 
>blank/format/whatever it and this breaks, ie. I can't start the burning. It 
>worked fine with a DVD+RW though. And ignoring the message and blanking in 
>menu, I could also write a cd-rw.
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>I am not sure what is causing the problem. Could dbus/hal be also trouble 
>makers? I don't know whether k3b is making something stupid, as well. Last 
>time I tried I had no problem with the ide driver though. So I don't know 
>whether ATAPI support in libata still needs polishing or whether Alan's PATA 
>patch is missing something or whatever...
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>What infos should I provide to make diagnosis easier?
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graveman had the same problem.   I went and used cdrecord-prodvd and 
haven't had a problem with direct command line, gcombust, or xcdroast 
(those are all plain frontends to the userspace tools).   

This seems to be a userspace problem in operating with libata/pata.    
xcdroast/gcombust and regular commandline usage of cdrecord-prodvd work 
fine.