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

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Wed Mar 28 17:46:21 UTC 2007


Josh Carroll wrote:
>> Ok, so the problem is happening long before the READ_CAPACITY command
>> is sent.  If it's dying on the INQ then it's going to be quite a bit
>> harder to fix; every device under the sun needs to respond to an INQ
>> so that the OS knows what kind of device it is.  Skipping that will make
>> the device pretty much useless to the OS.
> 
> I'm rebuilding a -CURRENT kernel with the cumulative and scsi patches
> now. What I didn't realize is the cam_xpt.c patch that adds the quirk
> to work around the serial # lookup wasn't patched in. At least I don't
> think so. I've re-added that patch and I'm trying again and will
> report back.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion, hopefully I get past the INQUIRY with the
> cam_xpt.c patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh

Any update on this?

Scott



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