On Monday 21 January 2013 17:11:04 Aaron Lu wrote: > It is not easy for the OS to tell if the drive is being used or not > sometimes > > Alan has reminded me it is possible for an app to open the block device > file(/dev/sr0), issue a command(play audio), then close the device file. > From the OS' point of view, we think nobody is using it. But actually, > the drive is playing cd for the user, so we can't suspend the device. Are there drives that support ZPODD and have an audio output? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html