Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

Alan Cox
2007-10-31T11:48:44Z

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:21:29 +0000
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > I would guess Brasero is issuing a command with the length of data
> > wrongly set. In the old code that might well just produce errors of the
> > "Umm wtf is this data left over for ?", with the new code the drive is
> > likely to change state as it knows the transfer size and that will
> > *correctly* cause an HSM error and what follows.
> >
> > Now the question is who gets the length wrong - Brasero or the ata
> > translation code in libata
>
> Brasero does exactly the same as my test app which I attached to my last
> mail. Is my test app wrong?

Would need to double check the SCSI specificatons to be sure but I think
you are asking for less data than the drive wishes to provide. You
aren't allowed to do that with ATA.

Alan