Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Joerg:
>    "WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).\n"
>    "WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.\n"
> Fixed:
>    "Warning: You don't have permission to lock memory.\n"
>    "         If the computer is not idle, the CD may be ruined.\n"
> 
> Joerg:
>    "WARNING: Cannot set priority class parameters priocntl(PC_SETPARMS)\n"
>    "WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.\n"
> Fixed:
>    "Warning: You don't have permission to hog the CPU.\n"
>    "         If the computer is not idle, the CD may be ruined.\n"

That seems reasonable, but _only_ if burnfree is not enabled. If the
hardware _supports_ burnfree but it's disabled, the warning should also
recommend turning it on.

-- 
dwmw2


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