Re: New CD/DVD reports 'Can Play Audio NO'

["Boris Petkov" <petkovbb@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Nick Warne wrote:
>> /messages
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata5: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl
>> 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf400 irq 14
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata6: PATA max
>> UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf408 irq 15
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata5.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW
>> SH-S202J, SB00, max UDMA/66
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata5.01: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A,
>> 1.06, max UDMA/66
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/66
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: ata5.01: configured for
>> UDMA/66
>>
>> /syslog
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer
>> dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>> Oct  5 11:54:13 sauron kernel: sr1:
>> scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>>
>> /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
>>
>> drive name:             sr1     sr0
>> drive speed:            48      48
>> drive # of slots:       1       1
>> Can close tray:         1       1
>> Can open tray:          1       1
>> Can lock tray:          1       1
>> Can change speed:       1       1
>> Can select disk:        0       0
>> Can read multisession:  1       1
>> Can read MCN:           1       1
>> Reports media changed:  1       1
>> Can play audio:         1       1
>> Can write CD-R:         1       1
>> Can write CD-RW:        1       1
>> Can read DVD:           1       1
>> Can write DVD-R:        1       1
>> Can write DVD-RAM:      1       1
>> Can read MRW:           1       1
>> Can write MRW:          1       1
>> Can write RAM:          1       1
>
> Thanks.  sr.c just doesn't check whether the drive reports audio play
> capability or not.  It just sets it while ide-cd actually checks for
> the capability.  The drive is not reporting it while it can so ide-cd
> needs blacklist entry for it.  Now that idecd has blacklist entry, all
> should be fine.  Eh... I'm not sure whether we need to update sr to
> follow what ide-cd is doing or not.
>
> Thanks.

Actually, as I already pointed out, I'm not at all happy with blacklisting
stuff. What sounds more sane to me (and this is only me) would be what sr.c
does: assume that per se the drive can play audio and try to play it. But how
many drives are there that cannot play audio, aka, would it be a safe assumption
to say that their number is so diminishingly small that it would be better to
announce that a drive can play audio by default and fail graciously in the
_very_ seldom case it actually cannot ...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris