From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267468AbUHPGsh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:48:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267469AbUHPGsh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:48:37 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:46496 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267468AbUHPGsT (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:48:19 -0400 Message-ID: <412058AF.3090102@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:48:15 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert M. Stockmann" Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert M. Stockmann wrote: > Maybe you didn't fully understand my problem. What i did was the > following. I downloaded cdrtools-2.01a27.tar.bz2 from > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > and only applied this patch cdrtools-2.01a27-ossdvd.patch.bz2 from > > ftp://ftp.crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/cdrtools/ And the question is: why??? SuSE comes with a cdrtools version that runs fine. No need to download anything from an external source. Just installing the cdrtools package from SuSE and calling "cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc ..." works without any problems here. You are complaining here that using some external package as replacement for the SuSE version and additionally forcing a setting other than the default does not work, even after a SuSE developer told you not to do that because there are known problems with the setting you are forcing. So what are you asking for? I guess I can find a bunch of programs that I download from anywhere and that are not working with some distributions. The idea of a distribution is that the packagers take care that the packages they deliver work together. Replacing some piece with your own version and then complaining that it does not work doesn't make any sense. This is like replacing the "eject" on SuSE 9.1 which has been patched to work with subfs and then complaining that your own "eject" does not work with subfs on SuSE 9.1. Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049