Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 14:32 +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
> > I've been experimenting with damaged CDs this day. I observed that
> > a dirty or (partly) unreadable CD will (1) block the process which is
> > trying to read from the CD - it will be in state "D" - uninterruptible
> > sleep and (2) sometimes(?) probably freeze your system such that even
> > a manual reboot wont work (e.g., because it's not possible to log in, or
> > keystrokes are no longer accepted) and a power-cycle is required.
>
> This is a known problem with the old IDE layer. There are several
> problems involved
>
> 1. The old IDE layer reset confuses some drives fatally
> 2. The DMA recovery tricks it does break the state machine of some
> controllers and hang them for good
> 3. The error recovery and timer code races and can hang
> 4. The speed change paths used on DMA fail change down race everything
>
> > please tell me a way to savely
> > (1) reset the IDE interface, e.g via IDE-TASKFILE (or, for testing,
> > a sequence of outb() to the chip)
> > (2) reset the CD-drive - sending a WIN_DEVICE_RESET (linux/hdreg.h line 196)
> > doesnt seem to be enough.
>
> Please try the libata PATA patches instead of the old IDE layer.
I have noticed a problem which I believe is in sr_mod. Doesn't matter if
the physical connection is ide, scsi, usb, etc.
If I access a drive that is not ready (ie, no disc, or in the process of
loading in a disc), the drive will no longer function properly.
I'm not sure if I can explain it fully, and I'm not sure if it's already
been reported.
I place a CD on the tray and do a mount. Mount will fail (lets just assume
that under 2.4.x this worked). I eject the cd and reinsert and wait for it
to become ready. Mount will still fail. Last I recall getblks ioctl
returns 2 or 4 in this case. The only way to fix is to rmmod sr_mod and
reinsert sr_mod.
another example would be that I insert a disc, say with 159000 sectors and
I'm able to read from it just fine. I make the above mistake but I insert a
disc with 200,000 sectors. The disc will be reported with 159000 instead of
the correct 200,000 sectors and some files will not be readable. Again,
rmmod and modprobe sr_mod fixes the problem.
I've been able to reproduce this on every linux system running 2.6 that I've
used with a CDRom.
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