Jonas Jensen wrote: > On 15/10/2008, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The drive times out SEND_OPC and then never comes back. The command >> is non-data command which just tells the drive to perform calibration, >> so there's nothing much the driver can do wrong about it. It looks >> like the drive could have hardware problem performing OPC. Can you >> test the drive under different operating system or different hardware >> configuration (different controller, different media, etc...)? > > Thank you for your reply, > > I tested the drive some more yesterday and found that it doesn't have > the same problem on CD-RW media. And the FujiFilm DVD-RW that causes > the problem it has no problem reading from. I'm not sure if it's just > that brand but it seems like it's a problem with the media. However, > it surprises me that bad media can cause the drive to fail into an > unrecoverable state. Looks like a cheap shitty device, atleast it > wasn't expensive :) Heh... For some reason, it doesn't surprise me too much. I've seen worse. :-P > I can test the device under different OS/controller if you feel like > you need that information. It pretty much looks like the drive going bonkers on the media it doesn't like, so if it's too much of a hassle, I think testing with different media should be good enough. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
