[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type



>From: Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se>

>> I just did run a test that verifies that the 708 in fact returns 36 bytes.
>> So the problem is definitely caused by a Linux driver bug.
>> 
>> I tend to believe that growisofs just does not check the SCSI status
>> byte

>Quoting myself. "Under Linux kernel 2.4 growisofs counts on sr_mod to
>check the status byte." Clarifying note. Under 2.4 growisofs counts on
>sr_mod to check the status byte and terminate corresponding ioctl with
>error code. Does growisofs check for return value? Yes.

Sorry, you repeat useless statements :-( 

The _only_ sense I can take out of your repeated try to avoid a clear answer is:

	growisofs does _not_ check whether the status byte is != 0


So it is obvious that growisofs only works because it does not check whether
the command encountered a problem.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js@cs.tu-berlin.de		(uni)  If you don't have iso-8859-1
       schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de	(work) chars I am J"org Schilling
 URL:  http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Reply to: