From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267237AbUHOXYJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:24:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267243AbUHOXYJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:24:09 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:58516 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267237AbUHOXYF (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:24:05 -0400 Message-ID: <411FF093.5090502@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:24:03 -0700 From: John Wendel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM References: <411FD919.9030702@comcast.net> <1092603225.18415.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1092603225.18415.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >On Sul, 2004-08-15 at 22:43, John Wendel wrote: > > >>K3B detects my Lite-on LTR-52327S CDRW as a CDROM when run with 2.6.8.1. >>Booting back into 2.6.7 corrects the problem. I've attached the (totally >>uninteresting parts of) dmesg. Any clues appreciated. >> >> > >The kernel really has no understanding of the difference here, and >the two dmesg files are identical so what makes you make that claim > > > > What claim? I'm not claiming anything, just trying to report a problem. I don't have the slightest idea what might be causing this problem, but the problem is real. I can see that the dmesg files are identical which is why I said they were "totally uninteresting". Since the new kernel is the only variable in this situation, I thought it reasonable to request help from you kernel gods. Sorry, I'll now crawl back under my rock. John Wendel