Re: cdrom errors with 2.0.31-pre7

Tuomas Heino (tbittih@xgw.fi)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:16:24 +0300 (EET DST)


On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:

> > hmm this CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. has been common on my
> > scsi cdroms... [old 4X toshibas with boring aha2940's]
> > maybe this could have something to do with the drive being busy or trying
> > to mount as r/w or is it something else? (I'm using 2.1.[45]1)
>
> By any chance did you enable vendor extensions at compile time?
>
Yes I did enable 'em... [and dcca2wav works;)]
hmm... it would be nice if the kernel told us WHICH ioctl is "ILLEGAL" ;)