Bug#319659: nautilus-cd-burner: Fails to rewrite DVD-RW

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:07:05AM -0400, Brett Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:17:29AM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote:
> >  This looks like a kernel lack of support or bug from the very
> >  beginning.
> > 
> >  However, while I thought handing your report to the kernel team, it
> >  seemed to me you're running a non-Debian kernel package.  To get
> >  support from the kernel team on this issue, you must of course run a
> >  Debian kernel.  If/when it is the case, please report the version in
> >  this bug report.  I'm reassigning to the bug to the kernel team, in
> >  version 2.6.12.
> 
> Hello kernel team,
> 
> Thank you for help in trying to track down this problem.  However, I'm
> afraid that, if this problem is in fact in the kernel, it's not really
> appropriate for Debian to handle.
> 
> In order to get this optical drive to work at all, I have to do some
> patching.  <include/linux/libata.h> has this line:
> 
>   #undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI
> 
> I have to #define that for Linux to recognize the drive.  So unless there's
> some way to change this setting via .config that I haven't figured out, I
> don't think it's possible to reproduce this in a Debian kernel.  The drive
> would not be accessible at all.
> 
> If that's the case, I'd be happy to talk to upstream myself about it.
> Talking to the SATA maintainers would probably be my best bet; if you could
> suggest the best way to reach them, I'd appreciate it.

I think that would be the best course of action.

-- 
Horms