While burning with cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrecorder ..., I noticed I made a mistake (testing things out with CD-RW) and instead of waiting for the burn to finish, I just pressed ^C. The cd burner keeps on being busy flashing its burn light, the (IDE) device is inaccessbile and times out, i.e. all of cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrecorder -reset/-eject, hdparm /dev/cdrecorder hang with long timeouts. Needless to say, every app thinks it's very smart to lock the eject button, making it impossible to force a drive reset that way. I'm not quite game to use a hairpin while the disk is still spinning. Is this state fixable other than by the redmond solution?
<rant> Is Billyware as bad as this crap? </rant> Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
