cdrecord fails on 2.6.8+ kernels [was thunderbird]

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:04:05 -0600, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> David A. Bandel wrote:
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> > Regurgitating the prose of Myles Green Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> on
> > Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:17:21 -0600:
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> > |I'm not sure I understand, does this mean we need to stick with/revert
> > |to a 2.4.x system in order to burn discs?
> > |
> >
> > I run a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel and it's burning just fine.  Burned a
> > KNOPPIX CD just the other day using the old ide_scsi module with sr_mod
> > (burner accessed as /dev/sr0).  Still works.  In fact, even though the
> > ATAPI stuff is supposed to work, I get warnings I didn't like from
> > cdrecord so I changed back.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > David A. Bandel
> 
> Ahh... OK, thanks David, I'll uncomment the pertinent line in lilo.conf
> and give it another try.
> 

OK, suspicions confirmed, deprecated != broken for ide-scsi. More to
the point, I thought I had read that ATAPI support was also
deprecated, and on my systems I can't find any version of cdrtools
and/or 2.6.8+ kernel that produces anything other than a total system
hang. I'm keeping 2.6.7 on thisl aptop so that I can burn without any
problems.

In contrast to what was said a few emails earlier, the patch which we
were discussing is in my kernels and cdrecord still does not work with
ATAPI. From earlier strace output, I could see (sometimes I could
capture this before the hang) that the hang always occurred on the
second I/O request issued to the device (dev=ATAPI:0,0 in my case).

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