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Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Wed Nov 2 08:00:56 PST 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:21:27PM -0330, Roderick Greening wrote:
> Ok, so I have downloaded and compiled HAL from CVS today. I have a DVD-ROM 
> that I'm trying to get working with KDE Media Manager, and trying to track 
> down the issue. Can someone look at the output from HAL below for the UDI 
> specific to my DVD-ROM and tell me if it looks correct and if everything is 
> being reported that should be.
> 
> Questionable things are
> 
>  volume.label = ''  (string)
>  volume.uuid = ''  (string)
>  volume.fsversion = ''  (string)
>  volume.fsusage = ''  (string)
>  volume.fstype = ''  (string)
> 
> Shouldn't the above have some values? At least shouldn't volume.fstype be 
> 'udf' or 'iso9660' or whatever for the mounted volume? I currently have a 
> Video DVD mounted and it's type is udf by HAL didn't report that in lshal.

Seems like a firmware bug in your drive. We got several of these reports
recently. Try to comment out the CDROMREADTOCHDR block at:
  hald/linux2/probing/probe-volume.c (line 470-487)

and see if that works?

Kay


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