CD Access in 9.x and -CURRENT

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Joseph S. Atkinson <jsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I am the maintainer of VLC, I have an outstanding PR (ports/162190) on the
> issue of cdda:// access.
>
> I can confirm this issues, but don't know enough about driver access to fix
> this myself. Doug Barton reports that cdcontrol(1) doesn't work for him, and
> mplayer and audactiy also display issues running as non-root.
>
> Under 9.0-RC3 r228843, I get these errors on boot with no disc present in
> /dev/cd0 at all.
>
> (pass1:ahcich2:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 01
> 00
> (pass1:ahcich2:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
> (pass1:ahcich2:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
> (pass1:ahcich2:0:0:0): RES: 51 04 01 14 eb 40 00 00 00 01 00
>
> These ports are fairly popular, but the problems may not lie exclusively
> with their assumptions about FreeBSD. I am running 10.0 on another machine
> specifically to test changes under src/sys/cam.
>
> I am worried that with the actual 9.0-RELEASE on the horizon, users will
> find show stopping problems using their disc drives.

    Try having users merge r228808 and r228847. If that works, then I
would press re@ produce another RC that fixes this.
Thanks,
-Garrett

PS This is coming from a user that was annoyed by this gap with the
ATA_CAM code.