From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat LaVarre Subject: Re: [PATCH] mount -w of dvd+rw etc. in vanilla 2.6 Date: 10 Sep 2003 14:08:40 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1063224520.3669.115.camel@patehci2> References: <1063217791.3669.43.camel@patehci2> <1063219776.3669.72.camel@patehci2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from email-out1.iomega.com ([147.178.1.82]:21134 "EHLO email.iomega.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265616AbTIJUHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:07:37 -0400 Received: from royntex01.iomegacorp.com (unknown [147.178.90.120]) by email.iomega.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E4214C1 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:07:37 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: <1063219776.3669.72.camel@patehci2> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Seemingly linux disagrees with itself over how writable profiles are: # /sbin/blockdev --setro /dev/scd1 # /sbin/blockdev --getro /dev/scd1 1 # dd of=/dev/scd1 if=/dev/zero bs=2K count=1 dd: opening `/dev/scd1': Read-only file system # So far so good, but then: # /sbin/blockdev --setrw /dev/scd1 # /sbin/blockdev --getro /dev/scd1 0 # dd of=/dev/scd1 if=/dev/zero bs=2K count=1 dd: opening `/dev/scd1': Read-only file system # That is, no matter if --getro is 0 or 1, still we do not write. The default I see here is 0, but still I cannot write. Pat LaVarre