Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

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2004-08-10T09:43:24Z

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> Joerg:
>> "WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).\n"
>> "WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.\n"
>> Fixed:
>> "Warning: You don't have permission to lock memory.\n"
>> " If the computer is not idle, the CD may be ruined.\n"
>>
>> Joerg:
>> "WARNING: Cannot set priority class parameters priocntl(PC_SETPARMS)\n"
>> "WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.\n"
>> Fixed:
>> "Warning: You don't have permission to hog the CPU.\n"
>> " If the computer is not idle, the CD may be ruined.\n"
>
> That seems reasonable, but _only_ if burnfree is not enabled. If the
> hardware _supports_ burnfree but it's disabled, the warning should also
> recommend turning it on.

I'm also wondering why cdrecord disables it by default. Can it ever
do any harm being enabled?

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