Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 15:57:27 EST


On Sun, Feb 18 2001, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * If not using Mt Fuji extended media tray reports,
> > + * just return TRAY_OPEN since ATAPI doesn't provide
> > + * any other way to detect this...
> > + */
> > if (sense.sense_key == NOT_READY) {
> > - /* ATAPI doesn't have anything that can help
> > - us decide whether the drive is really
> > - emtpy or the tray is just open. irk. */
> > - return CDS_TRAY_OPEN;
> > + if (sense.asc == 0x3a && (!sense.ascq||sense.ascq == 1))
> > + return CDS_NO_DISC;
> > + else
> > + return CDS_TRAY_OPEN;
> > }
> >
> > My tray is open as I type, and it is misreported as CDS_NO_DISC. In
> > 2.4.0 it worked fine.
>
> Your drive is broken, the only other valid combination is 0x3a/0x02
> which means no media and tray open. You could try and dump the asc
> and ascq to see what your drive reports for the different states.
>
> Ha Jens - must we disagree twice on one evening?

:-)

> You know all about this stuff, so probably I am mistaken.
> However, my copy of SFF8020-r2.6 everywhere has
> "Sense 02 ASC 3A: Medium not present" without giving
> subcodes to distinguish Tray Open from No Disc.
> So, it seems to me that drives built to this spec will not have
> nonzero ASCQ.

Right, old ATAPI has 3a/02 as the only possible condition, so we
can't really tell between no disc and tray open. I guess the safest
is to just keep the old behaviour for !ascq and report open.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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