hald/linux/blockdev.c Problem with IDE drive type detection

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:15 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 25. April 2007, Sledz, Steffen wrote:
> > This seems not to be right in all cases. I'm running linux
> > 2.6.18.8-0.1-default (openSUSE 10.2). I've connected a Fujitsu MO-drive on
> > /dev/hdb. This is reported as "optical" and so I get the error "Cannot
> > determine IDE drive type from file /proc/ide/hdb/media".  :(
> >
> > # cat /proc/ide/hdb/model
> > FUJITSU MCR3230AP-S
> > # cat /proc/ide/hdb/driver
> > ide-cdrom version 4.61
> > # cat /proc/ide/hdb/media
> > optical
> >
> > Any chance to get hald work with this device?
> 
> see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/7948

Which I think, Danny, that you never followed up on.... To recap, I was
saying it's fine to teach HAL to detect this kind of drives but we need
to set the property storage.drive_type -> cdrom.

     David