From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 16:02:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E2D1065732 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:02:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from meslists@yahoo.fr) Received: from n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [87.248.110.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 624278FC20 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:02:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from meslists@yahoo.fr) Received: from [217.146.182.177] by n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Mar 2009 16:02:28 -0000 Received: from [87.248.110.118] by t3.bullet.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Mar 2009 16:02:28 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp223.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Mar 2009 16:02:28 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 580504.84247.bm@omp223.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 48965 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2009 16:02:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=beNDPQIIqj2Jm5gZopMJcdFkfUe3shI7SzkhCrPhzSgRTifwzs5JCOjiKh3ECMDJlfHYlbrF3yF68CfJqjrCRqxQhE5k7q/VEglsZVL8Wcj6pqkRNq3rBoZZTIMWjajqh7Woa5/Mc9oQJXDPokvaxDRXqMC6fYnMOt57udvhNpc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO aodai.collidiamo.net) (meslists@151.49.227.57 with plain) by smtp135.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2009 16:02:28 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 3TQij.MVM1n3STtZK.7pNUiZkK2IoCJHDGCRZExFPz8ON.mwvRa3gJFgQiK_05Pr8lC47yYkqoOyPHg1YSd9Vl3M204M9vcHqFWI6V8rlNiHK3lMZfYgWidFnO1ZOQUFPrr0ppqZvgwroDfVKWBCN_sJ8Xz280pDJspmTvHvivWXFmvl10_SXRin X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <49C90409.8020308@yahoo.fr> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:02:17 +0100 From: dan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090322) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org References: <49C7AFFE.4060001@yahoo.fr> <20090323.104641.-75255559.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090323.104641.-75255559.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: external DVD Rewriter X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:02:32 -0000 Hi, thank you for the answer ! So, If I am not wrong, you are suggesting to forget about this warning and go on using the writer, right ? Hmmm ... I would be at least interested in understanding the nature of the problem, to be honest. And avoid that hundreds of these messages fill in the screen sometimes hiding important error messages :-) Any suggestion ? Thank you, dan M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <49C7AFFE.4060001@yahoo.fr> > dan writes: > : Hi ! > : > : I recently added an external LG dvd rewriter to a clean FreeBSD 7.1 > : installation. > : > : ------- > : umass0: on uhub3 > : cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > : cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device > : ------- > : > : As soon as I installed the xorg + gnome 2 ports these `odd` messages > : started to continuously appear in ttyv0 : > : > : ------- > : umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x4a - trying anyway > : umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x4a - trying anyway > : umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46 - trying anyway > : umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x4a - trying anyway > : [....] > : umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x4a - trying anyway > : [....] > : ------- > : > : After investigating a bit, I suppose these messages are a kind of an > : answer from the umass driver to HAL inquiries ( ... disabling HAL the > : messages disappear). > : > : the doubts and questions are: ...is the command really an unsupported > : command or is it a bug ? > : > : In case it is a bug, to whom should I fill in a PR ? > > Old usb printed this warning because of history. Originally it was an > error because the thumb drives were stupid POS at the time and any > command that they didn't understand would take an error path that hung > the device. Bad kharma. In time, I got tired of adding each new > command so that my dvd burner would work, so I just said "screw it, > this is a warning now, and if somebody's drive fraks up, then so be > it: they will know what's going on at least. Besides, people that try > to burn a CD/DVD on their 256MB flash drive don't need that much > protection: bad things happening to them isn't necessarily bad." > > Usb in 8.0 I think eliminated the warning. > > Warner > >