[Paranoia] Getting paranoia to quit on CD eject

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 09:19:12 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 14:31 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Monty,
> BTW There is still a bug in the SG_IO ioctl block layer implementation
> in the linux kernel 2.6 series (e.g. when /dev/scd0 is used as the
> device name). The SCSI status value is returned but not the host or
> driver values (i.e. errors detected at the near end or along the wire
> are not reported). Hence if one had an external cd reader and the
> cable was pulled during the transfer then the transport (e.g. USB,
> iee1394, SPI) knows but cdparanoia won't get a sensible error from
> the SG_IO ioctl.
> 
> Hopefully this problem will soon be addressed.

So what's the plan for how this sort of error will look in the
sg_io_hdr?

-- 
        Peter

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to
change that here and there.
                -- Feynman



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