cdrecord fails on 2.6.8+ kernels [was thunderbird]

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 11 October 2004 08:15 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:53:28 -0400, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> 
wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:36 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> > ---snip---
> >
> > > A side note: kernel 2.6.8 ff has broken support for cdrecord.
> >
> > I had same problems with cdrecord and gcombust (thanks llama) and after
> > so extreme googling I found a fix....
> >
> > ---snip---
> >
> > Here's a patch to fix that and here it is...
> > (I don't know what word wrap will do to this, so beware)
>
> [ patch snipped ]
>
> I'm glad that this works for you on some vendor patched kernels. I've
> verified the code in 2.6.9-rc3, and the patch you posted is in the
> code, so that's not the answer for me.
>
> I would love to know what series of patches fixes the problem.

Actually, that patch, when applied to 2.6.8.1, will provide access to atapi 
burners like we had in 2.6.7 and prior. No vendor kernel, straight from 
kernel.org...

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