Sense fetching [Was: cdrtools /devel ...]

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 14 15:33:07 UTC 2010


Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Now uncommitted pass_autosence.patch and possibly cdrtools.patch.
> 
> OK. Patched kernel and cdrtools has resulted in a working cdrecord
> (burned an ISO successfully) and an endless stream of:
> 
> ...
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
> ...

I think it can be hald probing for media insertion. Probably we should
slightly reduce error logging verbosity. May be somehow make to not log
errors on requests submitted from user-level via pass driver.

> But most important part: It works, and it burned very quickly! The CD
> was created, and fully functional (I booted the Fedora image and
> completed an installation).

Nice!

-- 
Alexander Motin


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