On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:23:07PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:52:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > > The drive claims to have a tray and claims to be able to close it. > > However, the UI has no notion of a tray - when medium is ejected it is > > dropped in the floor and the user must select a medium again before the > > drive can be re-loaded. On the kernel side the tray_move call to close > > the tray succeeds but the drive state does not change as a result of the > > call. > > > > The drive does not in fact emulate the tray state. There are two ways to > > get the medium state. One is the SCSI status: > > Given that this is a buggy software emulation we should not add more > than 100 lines of kernel code to work around it. Ask VMware to fix > their mess instead. And never hear back from them. Not to mention the installed base of already buggy servers. Thanks Michal
