Re: How to tell if mounted media is CD-R, CD-RW or CD-ROM?

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

"Giulio Orsero" <giulioo@gmail.com> wrote:

> I cannot boot CDs because system is at remote location right now.
> I made all tests with stock 2.4.32 kernel.org kernel.
> Now I booted the latest RHEL3 (2.4 based) kernel and it has the very same issue.
>
> With kernel 2.6.15.4 it does work, that is it prints "is erasable",
> even if before the string
> "ATIP info from disk"
> I get 100 lines from cdrecord with
> resid: 61752
> resid: 61752
> ...
> the number 61752 is always the same.

This is a hint for a Linux kernel bug.
Jörg

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