Tim Baverstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running the Debian/Woody package for both cdrecord and 2.4 > kernel-sources, so the ioctls should be compatible (even if they're 4 years > old). So far as I know, I'm not using any GUI-based volume management (I use > fvwm2, not Gnome or KDE) but are there any processes or kernel modules I > should check for?
I am not sure if this assumption is true..... Debian did already compile cdrtools on a Linux-2.4 kernel and allowed people to partially downgrade the kernel to Linux-2.2 in the past. So in order to be sore I would encourage you to self compile an original cdrtools source. http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/problems.html > It sounds like you're saying this is a kernel bug. Perhaps you would be kind > enough to forward the report to the kernel package team if that's the case? Some time ago, I gave up trying to send bug reports to the Linux kernel people. They don't seem to be interested in fixing their bugs :-( > As an aside, while clearly nothing should cause a kernel to crash, I would > have expected a program that deals specifically with the SCSI interface, to > the extent of scanning the bus, to notice that it was about to try to talk to > an unlikely/impossible SCSI address and give a warning to the user: a message > like 'ENOTTY: No such device' in response to 'dev=/dev/cdrom' would have been > confusing, but something like "Impossible SCSI address [-2, -2, -2] - have > you specified dev= properly?" would have been good. Well, first you did call cdrecord with a _wrong_ dev= parameter and should not be amazed by the results. RTFM for the correct parameters..... > I sympathise with your frustration over Linux ioctl changes. You'd suggest > that I use Windows or Solaris instead? Well, Win32 does not have the problems you report but it is not free or free of charge and the Win32 authors don't care about bug reports too. Solaris is currently free of charge for any type of usage and it will be Open Source for everybody very soon (I already have access to the OpenSolaris sources). The big advantage I see with Solaris is that the authors of the code listen to bug reports and fix bugs from time to time :-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
