SOLVED! Re: cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Ken Moffat]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:51:51 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:13:08 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
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>>>Turns out something was wonky with the CDRW (disc) that i was trying to
>>>use.  Using an ordinary CDR and all is well.  I still don't understand
>>>why cdrecord was just hanging.  I'd think that software that's been out
>>>for as long as cdrecord would have better error handling.
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>>Wow, this takes me back a hundred years (TM) in time. I had some CDRW
>>blanks that I got with a computer several years ago. At that time,
>>cdrecord would always fail to write or blank the disks. When I tried
>>them a few monts ago, the problem had disappeared.
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>>My money is still on cdrecord. Jorg uses low level I/O stuff that is
>>extremely dependant on the kernel (and thus hangs when the kernel API
>>changes even slightly), and changes (in cdrecord) are forthcoming
>>seldom or never.
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>Followup. I put up a 2.6.10 kernel (gentoo 2.6.10-r3), and cdrecord
>works just fine (cdr discs). I'll check on performance next time I do
>some emerges.
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Does it work as user or just root?

-- 
Ken