[Gllug] CD-Rom Writing,

[Doug Winter]

Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 02 May 2005, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
>>Beware some relatively recent kernel version (2.6.10 I think, but my
>>memory is lame) that had a bug in it, that locked the cdrom device for
>>writing after one attempt.
> 
> 
> What? I saw no such bug in 2.6.10.

Maybe wasn't 2.6.10 then (I said my memory was lame).  Was certainly one 
of the more recent 2.6 kernels, and isn't 2.6.11.

> What I *do* see in 2.6.10+ is a packet-writing bug whereby
> non-packet-written CDs are locked in the drive if you simultaneously
> have a pktsetup device set up (tearing the relationship down with
> `pktsetup -d' unlocks the drive). Nobody else can reproduce this, and I
> haven't had time to track it down: are you seeing it?

Nope, I've not seen that one.

Cheers,

doug.


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