# Drive Access and Unlock Technical reference for how libfreemkv opens, identifies, unlocks, and reads optical drives. --- ## Drive `Drive` is the primary API. It owns the SCSI transport and the drive identity (`DriveId`); any drive-specific unlock logic lives behind the pluggable [unlock seam](#drive-unlock-seam), not in `Drive` itself. ### Opening a Drive ```rust let mut drive = Drive::open(Path::new("/dev/sg4"))?; ``` `open()` performs: open device → send INQUIRY → build `DriveId`. The drive is ready for `wait_ready()` and `init()` (which routes through the unlock seam). ### Drive Operations | Method | Description | |--------|-------------| | `wait_ready()` | Wait for disc insertion (30s timeout, TUR polling) | | `init()` | Route to the matching registered unlocker (if any), then prepare for reads | | `probe_disc()` | Probe disc surface for optimal speeds | | `read(lba, count, buf, recovery)` | Read sectors. Single-shot — no inline retries or reset. | | `reset()` | Eject-cycle escape hatch. Caller-invoked only; not on the read path. | | `lock_tray()` | Prevent tray ejection during rip | | `unlock_tray()` | Allow tray ejection (also runs on Drop) | | `eject()` | Eject disc tray | | `drive_status()` | Query physical state (disc present, tray open, etc.) | | `has_profile()` | Whether a registered unlocker matches this drive | | `close()` | Consume Drive, cleanup (also runs via Drop) | ### init() Sequence `init()` routes drive preparation through the unlock seam: 1. Walk the registered-unlocker registry; the first whose `matches()` is true is asked to `unlock_drive()` over the raw transport. 2. Whatever that unlocker needs (firmware upload, vendor handshakes, retries) is the unlocker's own business — libfreemkv only forwards the transport. 3. If no unlocker matches, the drive is left untouched and the library uses the host-certificate AACS handshake. See [Drive Unlock Seam](#drive-unlock-seam) for the trait and registry. ### read() — single-shot `Drive::read(lba, count, buf, recovery)` is the single read method. It issues exactly one READ(10) CDB and returns the result. The `recovery` parameter only selects the per-CDB timeout: | `recovery` | Timeout | Used by | |------------|----------|------------------------------------------| | `false` | 1.5 s | `Disc::sweep` fast skip-forward pass, `DiscStream::fill_extents` | | `true` | 30 s | `Disc::patch` retry pass over the mapfile | On any SCSI failure or timeout, `read` returns `Err(DiscRead)` immediately. There are no inline retries, no SCSI reset, no Phase 1/2/3 escalation. Recovery is layered above `Drive::read`: - **Layer 1 — `Disc::patch`** loops over the ddrescue mapfile and re-issues `read(.., recovery=true)` against each non-`+` range. - **Layer 3 — `DiscStream::fill_extents`** halves the request size on failure, retries at the same LBA, and probes back up on a clean-read streak. Inline recovery (5× gentle retry → close + reset + reopen → 5× more) was removed in 0.13.6. See the stop-wedge postmortem (2026-04-25) for rationale: the inline reset wedged drive firmware on the LG BU40N (Initio USB-SATA bridge) without ever recovering a sector. See [`rip-recovery.md`](rip-recovery.md) for the full three-layer model. --- ## SCSI Transport ### Trait ```rust pub trait ScsiTransport: Send { fn execute( &mut self, cdb: &[u8], direction: DataDirection, data: &mut [u8], timeout_ms: u32, ) -> Result; } ``` All drive communication goes through this trait. The library never opens file descriptors or calls ioctls outside of a `ScsiTransport` implementation. ### Platform Backends | Platform | Implementation | Device | |----------|---------------|--------| | Linux | `SgIoTransport` — async `write`/`poll`/`read` on `/dev/sg*` | `/dev/sg*` | | macOS | `MacScsiTransport` — IOKit SCSITask | IOKit service | The Linux backend uses the sg driver's asynchronous interface: `write()` submits the command, `poll()` waits with an enforceable wall-clock timeout, `read()` retrieves the result. If `poll()` times out, the fd is abandoned (closed in a background thread) and a fresh fd opened — the kernel's USB error recovery cannot block us. Opens with `O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK`. The macOS backend uses a C shim (`macos_shim.c`) for IOKit exclusive access. The shim handles: 1. `shim_open_exclusive(bsd_name)` — unmounts the target device via `diskutil`, then walks the IOKit registry to find the `IOBDServices` matching the requested BSD name (IOBDServices → IOBDBlockStorageDriver → IOMedia → "BSD Name"), then creates MMCDeviceInterface → SCSITaskDeviceInterface → ObtainExclusiveAccess. 2. `shim_list_drives()` — registry-based enumeration with zero SCSI, zero exclusive access, zero unmounts. Reads IOBDServices "Device Characteristics" for vendor/model/firmware and child IOMedia "BSD Name" for the device path. 3. `shim_execute()` / `shim_close()` — raw CDB dispatch and cleanup. On non-zero SCSI status, the transport parses sense key from the sense buffer and returns `Error::ScsiError`. `SgIoTransport::reset` (Linux) does pure userspace state cleanup: an open + close pair to make the kernel cancel any SG_IO commands queued against a previous fd, a 2 s sleep to let the kernel finish that cancellation, then a fresh fd to send ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL to clear any stale tray lock. It does NOT issue `SG_SCSI_RESET` or escalate via STOP+START UNIT. Both were tried in 0.13.0–0.13.5 against the LG BU40N (Initio USB-SATA bridge); both failed to recover wedged drives and made the wedge worse. The macOS reset (which had been a no-op) was removed entirely in 0.13.6, and the top-level `scsi::reset()` / `reset_with_timeout()` / `reset_blocking()` wrappers were removed at the same time (no callers). ### CDB Builders The `scsi` module provides platform-agnostic CDB constructors: | Function | CDB | Use | |----------|-----|-----| | `inquiry()` | INQUIRY (0x12) | Drive identification | | `get_config_010c()` | GET CONFIGURATION (0x46) | Feature 010C firmware date | | `build_read_buffer()` | READ BUFFER (0x3C) | All platform commands | | `build_set_cd_speed()` | SET CD SPEED (0xBB) | Speed control | | `build_read10_raw()` | READ(10) (0x28) with flag 0x08 | Raw sector reads | --- ## Drive Identification `DriveId::from_drive()` sends two standard SCSI commands and extracts identity fields: | Field | Source | SCSI Reference | |-------|--------|----------------| | `vendor_id` | INQUIRY bytes [8:16] | SPC-4 section 6.4.2 | | `product_id` | INQUIRY bytes [16:32] | SPC-4 section 6.4.2 | | `product_revision` | INQUIRY bytes [32:36] | SPC-4 section 6.4.2 | | `vendor_specific` | INQUIRY bytes [36:43] | SPC-4 section 6.4.2 | | `firmware_date` | GET CONFIGURATION Feature 010C | MMC-6 section 5.3.10 | The match key is `"VENDOR|PRODUCT|REVISION|VENDOR_SPECIFIC"`. Profile matching tries all four fields first, then falls back to matching without the firmware date for drives where Feature 010C is unavailable. --- ## Drive Unlock Seam libfreemkv ships **no firmware, no unlock CDBs, and no drive profiles.** It knows only the *seam*, never the *mechanism*. The seam is the `Unlocker` trait plus a small process-wide registry (`src/unlock.rs`): ```rust pub trait Unlocker: Send + Sync { /// Stable, language-neutral identifier (logged). fn name(&self) -> &str; /// True if this unlocker handles the given drive. fn matches(&self, id: &DriveId) -> bool; /// Put the drive into extended-access mode. The one required capability. fn unlock_drive(&self, scsi: &mut dyn ScsiTransport, id: &DriveId) -> Result<()>; /// Read the disc Volume ID via the drive's OEM path. Default: no-op. fn read_volume_id(&self, _scsi: &mut dyn ScsiTransport, _id: &DriveId) -> Result> { Ok(None) } /// Raise the drive to its maximum read speed. Default: no-op. fn set_max_read_speed(&self, _scsi: &mut dyn ScsiTransport, _id: &DriveId) -> Result<()> { Ok(()) } } ``` An unlocker is supplied by an **external crate** and registered once at process start: ```rust libfreemkv::register_unlocker(Box::new(some_unlocker::Plugin::new())); ``` The implementor owns everything about *how* a particular drive family is driven — drive identification against its own profile database, firmware upload, vendor CDBs, variant logic. libfreemkv only hands over the raw `ScsiTransport` and the `DriveId`. ### Routing At drive-prep the registry is walked in registration order; the first unlocker whose `matches()` returns true is asked to `unlock_drive()` (and, when needed, `read_volume_id()` / `set_max_read_speed()`). If no unlocker matches, the drive is left untouched and the library falls back to the standard host-certificate AACS handshake (the "OEM route"). The `register_unlocker(...)` line is the entire plug: drop it (and the unlocker crate) and libfreemkv still compiles and rips via the cert handshake. Concrete unlockers — including the firmware-unlock profile databases, variant logic, and vendor CDBs that used to live in-tree — are maintained in the separate **[freemkv-unlock](https://github.com/freemkv/freemkv-unlock)** repository, never here. --- ## Speed Control A matching unlocker may raise the drive to its maximum read speed via `set_max_read_speed()` (a no-op when no unlocker matches or the unlocker declines). The library issues SET CD SPEED (0xBB) through the generic CDB builder; the concrete speed policy lives in the unlocker. Available speeds: | Format | Speeds | |--------|--------| | Blu-ray | 1x (4,500 KB/s) through 12x (54,000 KB/s) | | DVD | 1x (1,385 KB/s) through 16x (22,160 KB/s) | | Max | 0xFFFF (drive decides) |