Re: PR/40528 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40528; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pooka%iki.fi@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/40528 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:34:23 -0500

 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:30:04PM +0000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/40528; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: PR/40528 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi
 > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:25:47 +0000
 > 
 >  Module Name:        src
 >  Committed By:       reinoud
 >  Date:               Tue Mar 17 21:25:47 UTC 2009
 >  
 >  Modified Files:
 >      src/sys/dev/scsipi: cd.c
 >  
 >  Log Message:
 >  Fix long standing problem with CD/DVD writing with `dd'. If done this way 
 > the
 >  device will remain in a wait-for-more-stuff-to-be-written state delaying 
 > other
 >  SCSI calls, esp. some read-size or read-layout calls, until its told there 
 > is
 >  no more comming.
 >  
 >  To fix this, on last close explicitly flush the caches releasing the device
 >  from this mode and allowing other SCSI commands to reach it.
 >  
 >  This fixes PR 40528
 
 This fixes the 'eject cd0' problem that I reported in kern/40998, too.
 Thanks!
 
 Dave
 
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