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Re: cdrecord-2.01.01a21 refuses work on Linux 2.4 if non-ide-scsi DVD-ROM is present



scdbackup@gmx.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > '/dev/hda'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> > This looks to be impossible: If you run cdrecord with the apropriate rights 
> > (root) you should be able to open /dev/hda.
>
> I was root. Via su login, not via setuid.

This is really strange.

> Blame it on SuSE library configurations.
> After all, the binary built on the local system did work.

It is even stranger that a locally build binary behaves different.


> Actually what bothers me is the refusal on my 2.4 kernel
> with the /dev/hdg DVD-ROM. I found no trick to get it
> over that "Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/hdg'."
> Both burners stay unreachable for cdrecord-2.01.01a21 .

Implementing/testing a new idea does not mean that it works on al l platforms 
as expected. In special if this is a workaround for a preoblem from a 
badly planned kernel interface.

It would be possible to disable /dev/hd* scanning (by default) for pre-2.6 
systems. 

Jörg

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