From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, Damian Pietras <daper@daper.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with eject and pktcdvd
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:55:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wth19k4l.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ek39z09f.fsf@telia.com> (Peter Osterlund's message of "15 Jan 2006 20:48:38 -0000")
On 15 Jan 2006, Peter Osterlund murmured:
> If you do
>
> pktsetup 0 /dev/hdc
> mount /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp
> umount /mnt/tmp
> the door will be left in a locked state.
This is indeed what I see.
> pktsetup 0 /dev/hdc
> mount /dev/pktcdvd/0 /mnt/tmp
> umount /mnt/tmp
>
> the door will be properly unlocked.
... and this.
... and my assumption that I couldn't mount non-packetwritten CDs via
the /dev/pktcdvd/0 device is entirely erroneous. So it all works after
all, as long as I never use the non-packetwritten device.
Oh *good*. Thank you for this: this was my last real thing that worked
better in 2.4 than in 2.6 :)))
> The problem is that the cdrom driver locks the door the first time the
> device is opened in blocking mode, but doesn't unlock it again until
> the open count goes down to zero. The pktcdvd driver tries to work
> around that, but it can't do it in the first example because the
> mount/umount commands do not involve the pktcdvd driver at all.
Yeah, well, it's obvious once you've explained it ;)
--
`Logic and human nature don't seem to mix very well,
unfortunately.' --- Velvet Wood
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-15 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-15 12:35 Problems with eject and pktcdvd Damian Pietras
2006-01-15 17:53 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-15 18:50 ` Damian Pietras
2006-01-15 19:17 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-15 20:47 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-01-15 21:04 ` Damian Pietras
2006-01-15 21:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-15 21:34 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-02-05 19:13 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-02-05 21:07 ` Damian Pietras
2006-02-05 22:44 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-02-06 20:15 ` Damian Pietras
2006-02-11 11:21 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-02-12 10:34 ` Damian Pietras
2006-01-15 22:23 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-15 22:55 ` Nix [this message]
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