Re: cdrecord floating point exception

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>   
> > If a burner does not like some media, cdrecord usually prints a related SCSI
> > error message. There was no such message in the log send to this list.
> >     
>
> Parker Jones wrote:
>   
> > > Track 01:    0 of 4391 MB written.Errno: 5 (Input/output error),
> > > write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
> > > CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
> > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 10 00 00
> > > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > > Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x10 (medium not formatted) Fru 0x0
> > >       
>
> Although this is from wodim the report is
> obviously about an SCSI error and i would
> bet it stems from a 1:1 copy of your code.
>
>
>   
> > I still believe that there is some other problem like e.g. "hald":
> >     
>
> hald can make CD/DVD burns fail. But hardly
> DVD+RW. On overwriteables you can freely
> mix read and write operations.
> I do not believe that hald interrupts background
> formatting.
> I would also expect from the specs that DVD+R
> and BD-R can stand hald interference. Both are
> allowed to have more than one logical track open
> and you hardly can manage them without intermediate
> inquiry commands.
>
> After system startup i kill the processes named
> hald-addon-storage. They are the ones on my
> SuSE 10.2 which quite reliably spoild CD-RW burns.
>
> I cannot agree to the opinion that a _modern_
> Linux system could not live without hald. It is
> about the playfulness of the user interface
> and the incapacitation of its user.

There is no doubt that a system can run without hald, if you assume that 
the administrator is willing to do the same things by hand, and the user 
understands how to do all the things which hald typically does. And if 
you are comfortable with the idea that some of these things will require 
root access. :-(

For some special system used only by someone trusted and capable who's 
time has no value (I find the mix of "time has no value" and "trusted 
and capable" unlikely), of course you could run that way, Other than as 
a proof of concept I can't believe that would ever by useful compared 
with either using applications which understand hald or making a simple 
one time change in the hald config.

--
E. Robert Bogusta
 It seemed like a good idea at the time