Hi, > It's not quite the same and also FreeBSD-specific. You don't want that.
FreeBSD is the other operating system which the libburnia project supports. The bad-hald-experience reports were all from scdbackup users on Linux of different ages and distros. Before hald there were other disturbing automats. > BTW, for testing if/how hald stomps over writing: can I trigger hald > corruption by just writing some data to CD-RW on a modern (MMC) DVD writer > (NEC) while hald is probing? This depends on the ever changing habits of hald when and how to probe. I once straced one on a SuSE 9 kernel 2.6 system (i.e. an hald early version). It opened with and without O_EXCL several times after the tray was loaded. After some time it ended teasing the drive. So a good reciepe seems to be to let the burn program load the tray and to set eventual gracetime=0. The mishap usually happens during the first 100 MB. But somtimes later. Do not expect this to be deterministic. My experiments yielded failure with about 50% of the tries. On SuSE 10.2 it seems to be more reliably ill. And of course, lots of media are immune: DVD+RW, formatted DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE. I never saw anything fail other than CD but did not test DVD-R[W], DVD+R, BD-R for that. > "PHONE CARD", unmountable by FreeBSD+GNOME+HAL Just naive. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
