On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It barfs at a lot of commands, not surprisingly. ide-cd really has no
> concept of devices other than cd/dvd.
I'm not complaining about those messages. ;)
> You need to patch cdrom.c as well:
>
> if ((fp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !CDROM_CAN(CDC_DVD_RAM))
> return -EROFS;
>
Simply removing that test doesn't get me working write support,
I still get:
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hde /mnt/mo
mount: block device /dev/hde is write-protected, mounting read-only
The disk is not write-protected, I checked.
>> What can I do to help get this drive supported under 2.5/ide-cd?
> I'm tempted to say ide-scsi + sd, but that goes against my principles...
> It shouldn't be too much work to make ide-cd work gracefully.
Well, I'm not familiar with the code at all, so I don't know where
to look.
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