On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:58:19AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> >Hi Jeff, linux-ide,
> >I'm having troubles with libata and UDF on RW media. See below.
> >
> >Il Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:42:34PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt ha scritto:
> >>On Jan 30 2007 21:36, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> >>>Il Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:02:20PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt ha scritto:
> >>>>On Jan 30 2007 20:53, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>pktcdvd on kernel 2.6.20-rc6 is not working as expected. Any file that
> >>>>Did it work previously?
> >>>Yup, It used to work but since I rarely use it I don't remember which
> >>>kernel version worked for me.
> >>Hm, maybe you can take a guess.
> >
> >I can bisect pktcdvd.c if necessary, but it seems that it's innocent.
> >
> >>>>>is written to the device is lost after umount.
> >>>>>I rarely use pktcdvd but at some point it used to work on my system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>This is what I'm doing:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cdrwtool -d /dev/scd0 -q
> >>>>>scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B DL13 PQ: 0
> >>>>>ANSI: 5
> >>>>In case you are using ide-scsi: try without.
> >>>It's libata jmicron driver. Shall I try the "old" PATA driver on the
> >>>next reboot?
> >>If you have lots of CDRs/DVDRs to spare (or a CDRW/DVDRW), every test is
> >>welcome.
> >
> >With the legacy IDE driver it works fine.
> >The unit is DVD-RAM capable so the firmware should handle random writes
> >fine; I've tried mounting /dev/scd0 rw *without* pktcdvd and I still
> >lose files. So I guess it has something to do with libata.
> >
> >So to recap, after formatting the disk with UDF:
> >
> >* libata
> > - mount with pktcdvd: all files are lost upon umount
> > - mount scd0 w/out pktcdvd: all files are lost upon umount
> > - write the disk with cdrecord: OK
> >
> > pktcdvd reports wrong capacity:
> >
> > pktcdvd: Fixed packets, 32 blocks, Mode-2 disc
> > pktcdvd: Max. media speed: 4
> > pktcdvd: write speed 4x
> > pktcdvd: 0kB available on disc
> > UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'LinuxUDF',
> > timestamp 2007/01/30 18:18 (103c)
> >
> >* legacy IDE driver
> > - mount with pktcdvd: OK
> > - mount hda w/out pktcdvd: corrupts FS (duh)
> > - write the disk with cdrecord: OK
> >
> > pktcdvd reports correct capacity:
> >
> > pktcdvd: writer pktcdvd0 mapped to hda
> > pktcdvd: Fixed packets, 32 blocks, Mode-2 disc
> > pktcdvd: Max. media speed: 4
> > pktcdvd: write speed 4x
> > pktcdvd: 551232kB available on disc
> > UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'LinuxUDF',
> > timestamp 2007/01/30 22:19 (103c)
> >
> >The HW is a JMicron controller:
> >02:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI
> >Controller (rev 02)
> >02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI
> >Controller (rev 02)
>
> hmmm, definitely interesting behavior.
>
> Would you mind putting this info into a bugzilla.kernel.org report, so
> that it is not lost? This bug will likely go into a heavy ATAPI
> debugging session that is coming in a few weeks, but not immediately :/
Is this related to #7810 (which is caused by Christoph's patches) or is
this issue another 2.6.20-rc pktcdvd regression?
> Jeff
cu
Adrian
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