On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:54 +0200, Grégoire Favre wrote: > What's DV ? Domain Validation ... it's a way of probing the SCSI bus to check that the transport parameters for the device are correct (and that nothing on the bus is interfering with the transmissions). > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1201 Rev: 1R08 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aha, this wouldn't be the first DVD to screw up in domain validation. The first such problem was because the device lied about having an echo buffer ... I suspect that may be the case here too. The initial fix was just to disbelieve the device if it didn't support ppr. Could you try the attached? It expands the check to disbelieve the return for all CD type devices. Thanks, James --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ spi_dv_device_internal(struct scsi_reque * do the SPI pattern write tests */ len = 0; - if (sdev->ppr) + if (sdev->ppr && sdev->type != TYPE_ROM) len = spi_dv_device_get_echo_buffer(sreq, buffer); retry: - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
