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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 25. April 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:15 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
[...]
> > 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.

This is the point where I'm not complete sure about. Are MO devices really 
cdrom devices or can they only handle MO media? If they can only handle MO 
media and if they have no capability to work with CD/DVD we should handle 
them in a different way. 

In the case of this device (FUJITSU MCR3230AP-S) I could not see that the 
device work with cdrom:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/mo/mcr3230ap/

So we need e.g. all the  storage.cdrom.* properties for example. Also not sure 
if e.g all functions from linux_dvd_rw_utils.* would work with MO devices. 
Unfortunatly I have currently not the hardware to test this, but I try the 
next days to get access to one. 

Danny