hald/linux/blockdev.c Problem with IDE drive type detection
Sledz, Steffen
sledz at DResearch.DE
Wed Apr 25 23:27:04 PDT 2007
> > 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.
No, they are not CD/DVD devices. They can only handle own MO media.
Steffen
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