On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Francois Marier wrote:
Actually the SCSI stuff broke in 2.6.14 or 2.6.13. It seems to work fine on 2.6.12 kernels (at least it does on my machine with my Plextor SCSI burner).
I've seen a lot of people on the LKML who saw breakage around 2.6.9 or so. Linus said there use to be a practice in many userland applications of opening a block device for read, and then writing to it. When the kernel stopped honoring that for security reasons, lots of apps broke. K3b did that when its splash screen started, during the scan for CD devices, and that's why people were getting writers either not detected or misidentified as readers, even in cases where cdrecord from the shell worked. I'm now running Debian's 2.6.8 kernel package and everything works, but probably people who want to run newer upstream kernels who have this problem may have to wait for etch. More and more, the userland apps are getting fixed upstream to work with the new kernels, but the older versions in sarge just get their SCSI commands blocked.
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