CD/DVD writer capabilities not correctly imported in HAL

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Jan 20 07:43:32 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:05 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have FC3 with HAL 4.5, and it seems that the info about my CD/DVD burner
> from HAL are not correct, at is supports dvdrw for sure.
> Here is info from lshal and from /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info:
> 

Uhm, we use MMC commands to retrieve drive capabilities, not the 
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file (which would be somewhat terrible
to parse). We might switch to using the latter on HEAD.

David

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