Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:51:10PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >The main point is not to poll to frequent (Solaris does once everz 3 seconds)
> >and to use SCSI commands only that to not interrupt or disturb CD/DVD-writing.
> >
> 
> I do not have any problems with resmgr/hal ATM (SUSE Linux 10.0). Although 
> hal [seems to] probes more often than once/3sec,

It polls every 2 seconds.

> it did not interrupt any 
> of my cd writing processes. Maybe that's already a feature of cdrecord*, I 
> don't know.

I don't know of any problem in that area and almost every modern Linux
desktop has HAL running these days, so I'm sure somebody would have
complained.

Kay
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