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To: Michael Johnson <johnsom@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?
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From: John Fremlin <chief@bandits.org>
Date: 01 Mar 2001 18:52:24 +0000
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"Michael Johnson" <johnsom@home.com> writes:

> >> You know all about this stuff, so probably I am mistaken.
> >> However, my copy of SFF8020-r2.6 everywhere has
> >> "Sense 02 ASC 3A: Medium not present" without giving
> >> subcodes to distinguish Tray Open from No Disc.
> >> So, it seems to me that drives built to this spec will not have
> >> nonzero ASCQ.
> >
> >Right, old ATAPI has 3a/02 as the only possible condition, so we
> >can't really tell between no disc and tray open. I guess the safest
> >is to just keep the old behaviour for !ascq and report open.

> I don't understand why the current(2.4.1) behavior is a problem...

It isn't a problem, it just changed in the middle of a stable release.

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