kern/103602: drive gets wedged on READ CD CAPACITY if no disc is in

[Thomas Quinot]

* Josh Carroll, 2007-03-14 :

> Hi Scott/Thomas,
> 
> I bought a Pioneer DVR-112D IDE DVD-RW drive to see if the timeouts
> were specific to my Sony DRU-800A, but I had no luck with it, either.
> In fact, it wouldn't even work with a disc in the drive as the Sony
> does. It times out on INQUIRY (dmesg attached below). I'm hoping this
> is a valid data point for this issue - it definitely seems to point
> towards something that's not drive dependent. Although I was hoping
> it'd act the same way as the Sony.
> 
> Anyway, below is the dmesg from a boot without a disc in the drive
> (the same INQUIRY failures happen with a disc in the drive).

Interesting, the drive times out on the particular INQUIRY to obtain the
drive serial number... and Josh has been running a kernel with a quirk
entry that disabled this lookup for the Sony drive.

Thomas.