On Tuesday 26 April 2005 23:17, Andy Stewart wrote: > I have a patch that partially solves this situation. My patch allows > the SATA ATAPI device to be seen, mounted, umounted, and read without > problem. Writes to the device fail miserably, and I haven't debugged > that yet. Also, the use of the 'dd' command with my patch works unless > 'dd' is allowed to read off the end of the CD, in which case there is a > kernel oops (easily reproduced, and I've not yet debugged that failure, > but I have a theory). > Since my patch isn't a complete solution, I haven't told anybody about > it until now. However, if you are interested in my patch despite its > limitations, please let me know, and I'll be happy to share it with you. > My work was done with the 2.6.11.5 kernel and is limited to one or two > files, if I recall correctly. I'd very much like to see what you came up with. I'm currently playing with 2.6.11.7 but I doubt there's much difference in this area from .5. -- Regards, Tais M. Hansen OSD ___________________________________________________________ "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." -Bill Gates (1991)
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