On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:41:34PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > - the burn v haldaemon stuff has to be userspace I think > > I'm really surprised that hald can disrupt burning - when hald polls > the drive it uses O_EXCL and so does cdrecord (if it doesn't it's a > packaging bug). I was too except for the dual CD-ROM case which is understandable but this shows up in the uni case. Still a mystery - might not even be HAL in the end > we indeed get the slowdown. Hence, the kernel does something when the > last > closer closes the device - dunno what to do here from userspace short of > just not poll. We unlock the door, that makes the drive power management kick in. If we leave the door locked you can't take a CD out 8) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144036 > > which I completely fail to understand. Long term it looks like hald > should be > using MMC commands to detect media if available - any idea of where I > can find > documentation/code for this? The standard. You'll want a magic circle, some runes, a wand, a pointy hat and a heart of steel. I don't know of anything else that covers it.