cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:51:12PM -0800, Net Llama! took 94 lines to write:
> On 12/31/2004 06:34 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> >There were several threads about cdrecord hanging on LKML, but I don't 
> >recall seeing a definitive root cause analysis or a solution.
> 
> That's interesting.  I just googled like crazy and didn't find anything. 
> Do you have any references that you can point me to, so that i can at 
> least learn whether its just me or if this is a real issue?

Oops. I was thinking of CF readers. Sorry for the red herring.

> >Hm. 2.6.9 worked okay. We have the same versions of cdrecord, but $DEITY
> >only knows how (if) Red Hat hacked up the version they ship. Interestingly,
> 
> I'm sure that's a good possibility, but at the same time i'm thinking 
> this isn't a RH-ism. *shrug*

Likely not.

> >cdrecord's author suggests using 2.4 or Solaris:
> 
> Jorg has been saying that for years.  Actually, i'm surprised that he's 
> stopped telling people not to use Linux at all.  For the longest time he 
> was openly bad mouthing linux in general and only advocating cdrecord 
> for other UNIXes.

Some people are troglodytes.

> [root at hal root]# cdrecord -version
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
> J??rg Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
> this version.

Settles that, I suppose.

> Hrmmm, i'm tempted to go back to 2.6.7 at this point.  I didn't have any 
> good reasons to use 2.6.10 other than because its been a while since i 
> last upgraded and assumed that there would be some benefits.  Seems i 
> was way wrong.

I've had no problems with 2.6.9, if you've still got the itch to upgrade
your kernel.

Kurt
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