Re: writable mmc profiles actually are writable

Matthew Dharm
2003-10-07T06:45:50Z

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:38:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06 2003, Pat LaVarre wrote:
> > Yep, still happy, same in -test6 as in -test5 e.g.
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep ^sr
> > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x caddy
> > sr0: scsi3-mmc maybe not writeable
> > sr0: scsi3-mmc writable profile: 0x0002
> > $
> > $ grep MMC /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> > Can write other MMC-RW: 1 ...
>
> I don't quite agree with this patch. Please add the GET_CONFIGURATION
> stuff to cdrom.c instead so it works with ide-cd as well (ide-scsi is
> basically dead, and the number of scsi drives out there isn't exactly
> big and increasing). GPCMD_GET_CONFIGURATION already exists. Also, make
> DVD-RAM drives set CDC_MMC_RW as well and only check for that at open.

While the number of SCSI CD-ROM drives may be shrinking, the ATAPI drives
behind a USB/ATAPI bridge is skyrocketing.

Matt

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