Comment 21 for bug 1730746

Thanks for having run a bisect, that really helps.

Recently the following commit went upstream:

commit c9f926000fe3b84135a81602a9f7e63a6a7898e2 (mkp-scsi/4.15/scsi-fixes)
Author: Hannes Reinecke <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 10 09:34:02 2018 +0100

    scsi: libsas: Disable asynchronous aborts for SATA devices

    Handling CD-ROM devices from libsas is decidedly odd, as libata relies
    on SCSI EH to be started to figure out that no medium is present. So we
    cannot do asynchronous aborts for SATA devices.

    Fixes: 909657615d9 ("scsi: libsas: allow async aborts")
    Cc: <email address hidden> # 4.12+
    Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <email address hidden>
    Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <email address hidden>
    Tested-by: Yves-Alexis Perez <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <email address hidden>

So you may want to try one of the kernel versions that includes that fix, e.g. v4.14.15 or v4.15.