Pixel wrote:
> Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> One thing which _would_ help in this area is to load CD support as a module
>> rather than building it in, that way the funny ATAPI CDE burners (TraxData etc)
>> can be got working under Mandrake without a kernel recompile. As things stand,
>> the CD driver loads on bootup and puts the funny burners into IDE mode, from
>> which the ide-scsi driver has no way of recovering pretend-SCSI mode.
> you *don't* need to recompile the kernel!
> 7.1 got it right as far as i know.
> 7.2b was a bit broken, since i was grep'ing the kernel messages and they changed
> :-(
> i've just fixed it, using a nice ioctl :)
> (more precisely: ioctl(fd, CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY) & CDC_CD_RW)
Fabulous! Looking forward to using that!
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