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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:04:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sean Hamilton <sh@planetquake.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST at very end of CD
Message-ID:  <200209250704.g8P74Wrh083937@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020924231137.29616H-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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It seems Robert Watson wrote:
> Yeah, it's odd actually.  I burnt myself a CD this morning using my Mac OS
> X box, and it appeared to be fine on an older -CURRENT box and on the Mac.
> Stuck it in my far-more-recent -CURRENT box and it died horribly.  Or at
> least, it gave the same error you're reporting.  I'm going to try to track
> it down -- the three suspects are (1) the marker I used to write on the CD
> was more caustic than I thought, (2) my CD-ROM drive is broken in my
> notebook and it went undiscovered until now, and (3) something changed in
> the ATA code to cause me suffering.

Hmm, it could be that the size calculation fails for some setups
(again, we have suffered pain here before due to various incarnations
of drive firmware), causing the driver to try issueing a read that 
goes beyond EOM.

-Søren

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