In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
>
>> Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as
>> before.  I wonder how many others got hit by that.
>
>Apparently not as many as got hit by the block number scaling bug.  I
>guess most users only have atapi cdroms.  This is a good change, but
>needs time for conversion.
>
>The SCSI CDROM driver has some very nice new bugs apart from broken label
>contents.  I have noticed the following so far:
>- b_pblkno seems to be unitialized.  I think it is always 0, This affects
>  mainly disksort^Wbioq_disksort().  The driver used to use b_pblkno
>  internally and the scaling bug was introduced by replacing this by
>  b_blkno and fixed by scaling b_blkno to the value that b_pblkno
>  should be set to.
>- block sizes and offsets that are not a multiple of the sector size are
>  now accepted, but don't work.  E.g., dd with a block size of 1 byte
>  doesn't fail, but produces garbage.
>- offsets beyond EOF are now accepted in software and are only rejected
>  in hardware.  This spams the console with error messages and gives wrong
>  error handling (EIO; should be EOF (no error)).

Yeah, I have a patch sitting in my tree which I couldn't get to work,
probably because the blocksize issue obscured it, I'll get to it
one of these days.

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