Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:17:53 -0500 | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On 2/2/06, Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote: > On 02/02/06 12:17:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote: > > > > > Every other method to access those devices uses the device name, i.e. > > > mount, fsck, etc, so why should cdrecord be different? > > > > inadequateness on Linux did force libscg to go this way. > > > > And inadequacies are what's causing libscg and 'cdrecord -scanbus' to fail > to list all IDE devices on Linux. Unless the comments about it stopping the > scan after getting -EPERM on one device are wrong.
I'm seeing even worse behavior. Since /dev/hda is a disk with mounted filesystems, my kernel refuses access even for root. Thus, even root is unable to scan the /dev/hd* devices! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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