Re: How to fix CDROM/DVD eject mess?

[Austin S Hemmelgarn]

On 2015-02-03 07:31, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> > > Then,
> > > udev unlocks the media and issues the SCSI eject ioctl unconditionally
> > > when DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST event is received.  Since SCSI ioctl
> > > doesn't take the open refcount into account, it results in the
> > > forcible eject.
> >
> > Which again is the expected behavior in the user's view.
>
> What if user doesn't want?  e.g. DVD/CD media is being burned?
FWIW, I have seen some drives where either the hardware or the drive 
firmware ignores the eject button while a write operation is in progress 
(ie, doesn't appear to even send the event, let alone eject the disk).

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