On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 03:56:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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? I'm afraid I don't know, since there are so many ODD makers. But at least we can say, the SPEC doesn't forbid it. Thanks, Aaron -- 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
