CD/DVD writer capabilities not correctly imported in HAL

[Paul Ionescu]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:34:22 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
>> >> 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.
> 
>> I don't mind using MMC commands to retrieve drive capabilities if they
>> provide accurate information.
> 
> 
> I do not really understand how can /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info be more
> correct than the using mmc commands... How is that information retrieved?

I don't know, but I am sure I can write dvdrw (actually dvd-rw) because I
just wrote one.


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