Unable to open dvd drive

[Neil Leathers]

> 2010/6/30 Neil Leathers <neil.leathers at rogers.com>:
> > I am unable to open either of my dvd drives when devkit-disks-daemon is running. One doesn't open at all and the other occasionally opens but gets pulled closed immediately. Running `ps ax` I see "devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/hdc /dev/hdd". If I kill that process I am able to open the dvd drives and use them without problem. Please let me know what you need to debug this.
> >
> > devicekit-disks: version 009
> > kernel: version 2.6.32
> > hardware: x86, 64 bit
> > distro: gentoo
> 
> You should recompile your kernel using libata, 

libata was in place however having CONFIG_IDE set to yes meant that my IDE devices defaulted to using the IDE drivers instead of the SCSI drivers. I set it to no, recompiled the kernel and modules, and now everything works correctly (as SCSI devices).

Thanks for the help.

> ... or apply the patch [1]
> we ship in Debian to add ide-cd support.> The patch is against udisks though, and I suggest you upgrade from
> devicekit-disks to udisks, too.
> 
> [1] http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/udisks/1.0.1+git20100614-1/10-ide-cd-support.patch

The package for udisks currently hasn't made it to unstable in Gentoo let alone stable. I'll forward this to the maintainer. (Maintainer, this is pulled in by (gnome or libgnome or nautilus) -> gvfs -> gnome-disk-utility -> devicekit-disks so is rather difficult to avoid and extremely severe.)

Neil

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