Re: 2.0.34pre2 bugs

Ian Eure (ieure@peninsula.wednet.edu)
Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:21:06 -0800


Itai Nahshon wrote:

> Ian Eure wrote:
> >
> > found a couple bugs this weekend...
> > first, the scsi emulation support for my HP CD-Writer+ 7110i seems
> > broken; I can read raw audio tracks fine without the scsi emulation, but
> > when it's turned on, all I get are NULLs. Very irritating to dupe an
>
> Getting the NULLs is probably not a kernel problem.

It seems like it is- if the standard ATAPI ioctls work, but the SCSI commands
don't, wouldn't that be a bug in the scsi emulation? On another interesting
aside, the standard cdstop/cdplay/cdpause stuff that come with Debian 1.3.1
work fine in ATAPI mode, but return an `invalid ioctl()' error when run with
SCSI emulation. The only program that seems to like scsi emulation mode is
cdrecord (lucky for me) - but when I tried the latest version of cdrecord, it
did not work - couldn't get disc type or something. I'm using 1.6a7 just fine
though. So, it seems to me like the scsi emulation is very broken or there is
some other factor that I'm not aware of- is there anything I can do to help
pin down the source of the problem?

>
>
> > audio cd, as I have to boot a kernel with the standard ATAPI driver to
> > read, and the scsi emulation driver to write it :)
>
> This is a config problem which must be fixed for 2.0.34. You
> should be able to use ide-scsi as a module.

How is that going to work? Will the ATAPI cd-rom _and_ scsi emulation be built
as modules, or will ATAPI cd-rom support be in the kernel with the scsi
emulation as a module?

>
>
> > the other bug also has to do with raw audio reading. It seems like I get
> > i/o errors at the very end of the last track when I use cdda2wav (.8 or
> > something) to read the whole cd. I found a patch on LinuxHQ against
> > 2.0.30; any ideas why this wasn't included with 2.0.31+?
>
> I bet the reason is that it did not get enough testing to get into
> an official stable kernel. It is included in the 2.1.xx kernels.
>
> BTW. Which version of cdda2wav are you using?
> Try to use the alpha version from Joerg Schilling's ftp site, or cdparanoia
> (sorry, I do not have the URL's handy).

It's version 0.8betaSomething - standard in Debian 1.3.1r6. I think I have the
URL for cdparanoia, but thanks for the pointers.

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