CD DVD drive docs

[David Niklas <doark@mail.com>]

This is not exactly about debian, but I could not resist the
opportunity.
I noticed a user who knows much about CD and DVD drives and I'm curious
about what books or docs he might recommend to learn about the topic,
for if things continue as they are, it seems we will run out of people
with the know-how.

Also, I noticed this:
> Well, it actually does not work because it throws at dd an
> error "No medium found" before the drive LED stops blinking.
> I.e before drive and/or udev are done with inspection.
> I saw this regression on about half of my Linuxes.
> Not on 2.6.34. It really was a good kernel for optical drives.
Shouldn't this be reported to the kernel devs as a regression?

Thanks, David