Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

Alan Cox
2001-02-19T02:02:41Z

> > But it has to go somewhere, and 2.4 right now is unusable on two of my boxes
> > with M/O drives.
>
> Reads can be pretty easily padded, but writes are a bit harder. Maybe
> push it to some helper before the device queue sees it? For 2.4 the
> best sd solution is probably to just make it able to handle these
> requests.

For M/O drives you can do it in the scsi layer. Doing it right in the block
layer is not easy. Doing it cleanly and right I cant currently visualise a
setu for. But I agree it belongs in the queueing layers