On Tuesday 22 January 2013 10:25:31 Aaron Lu wrote: > 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. Well, then we have to handle it. 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