retitle 550316 broken cd-rom polling/detection with (legacy) ide-cd thanks Josselin Mouette wrote: > As requested on IRC, I tested this quick hack to work around broken code > that identifies CD drives (my drive being /dev/hdb):
... > With this, the CD isn’t locked anymore and I can insert disks into it, > but it is still not usable by nautilus, which behaves as if no media was > introduced in the drive. After that my kernel logs are full of scary > error messages: All replies so far indicate that this behaviour only happens for systems using ide-cd/ide-core, i.e. the old IDE subsystem. The code also makes assumptions (see the is_cdrom check) that only the new libata subsystem is in use, so the cd-rom drive is opened with the wrong flags causing the drive to be retracted when it is polled. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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