Re: amd64 cdrom access locks system

[Robert Hancock]

Jeff Wiegley wrote:
>    cdrecord -v -eject -dao dev=ATAPI:/dev/hda something.iso
> cdrecord comes up and spits out:
> ...
>   Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
>   Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be 
> unmaintained.
>   Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.

I don't think this is the interface option you want to be using - try 
just dev=/dev/hda. I don't know if this is why you were getting errors 
though.

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