Re: [IDE] trying to make MO drive work with ide-floppy/ide-cd

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 06 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > You need to patch cdrom.c as well:
> > > 
> > > 	if ((fp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !CDROM_CAN(CDC_DVD_RAM))
> > > 		return -EROFS;
> > > 
> > 
> > Simply removing that test doesn't get me working write support,
> > I still get:
> > 
> > # mount -t ext2 /dev/hde /mnt/mo
> > mount: block device /dev/hde is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > 
> > The disk is not write-protected, I checked.
> 
> Shouldn't matter, the drive has to check for that particular bit (and it
> obviously does not). Are we still talking 2.5 or 2.4?

You also need to fix this in ide-cd:

	if (CDROM_CONFIG_FLAGS(drive)->dvd_ram)
		set_disk_ro(drive->disk, 0);

-- 
Jens Axboe