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SubjectRe: Question re the disk driver for /dev/sr0
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Has something been done to that code that is preventing /dev/sr0 from
> correctly reporting a busy or not ready status to k3b in the last year or so?
>
> K3B used to dutifully wait till the drive, on reloading the disc after burning
> it, was ready to service its verify request. Now, and for several months or
> more, k3b attempts to read the drive immediately on the disc's being pulled
> back in, and of course fails, causing k3b to bail out of the verify phase
> completely.
>
> So we are left doing it by hand, a 2 stage process, by first dividing the size
> of the iso file being burnt by 2048 to get the number of blocks to read, and
> then feeding dd's output for that many size 2048 blocks to sha1sum. This
> works fine but requires the user to understand what it is he is doing. :)

You'll need to provide more details on your setup (like what kind of
drive and full dmesg). I haven't seen this problem.


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