Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:49:58 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression |
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:21:29 +0000 Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > > I would guess Brasero is issuing a command with the length of data > > wrongly set. In the old code that might well just produce errors of the > > "Umm wtf is this data left over for ?", with the new code the drive is > > likely to change state as it knows the transfer size and that will > > *correctly* cause an HSM error and what follows. > > > > Now the question is who gets the length wrong - Brasero or the ata > > translation code in libata > > Brasero does exactly the same as my test app which I attached to my last > mail. Is my test app wrong?
Would need to double check the SCSI specificatons to be sure but I think you are asking for less data than the drive wishes to provide. You aren't allowed to do that with ATA.
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