Re: Problems with eject and pktcdvd

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 15 Jan 2006, Peter Osterlund murmured:
> If you do
> 
> 	pktsetup 0 /dev/hdc
> 	mount /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp
> 	umount /mnt/tmp

> the door will be left in a locked state.

This is indeed what I see.

> 	pktsetup 0 /dev/hdc
> 	mount /dev/pktcdvd/0 /mnt/tmp
> 	umount /mnt/tmp
> 
> the door will be properly unlocked.

... and this.

... and my assumption that I couldn't mount non-packetwritten CDs via
the /dev/pktcdvd/0 device is entirely erroneous. So it all works after
all, as long as I never use the non-packetwritten device.

Oh *good*. Thank you for this: this was my last real thing that worked
better in 2.4 than in 2.6 :)))

> The problem is that the cdrom driver locks the door the first time the
> device is opened in blocking mode, but doesn't unlock it again until
> the open count goes down to zero. The pktcdvd driver tries to work
> around that, but it can't do it in the first example because the
> mount/umount commands do not involve the pktcdvd driver at all.

Yeah, well, it's obvious once you've explained it ;)

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