On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, RK wrote:
Looking over the changelogs, I see that the pktcdvd modules was tweaked to only configure when there is a CD/DVD/CD-R(W)/DVD-RW in the drive. Why is this? As long as using pktsetup requires a medium in the CD/DVD drive, automatically, (ie - via /etc/rc.d) setting up Packet-CD is precluded.
I'd like either:
a) This feature to be removed. Since there isn't any real reason to require a CD/DVD, or at least none that I know of, it would be a lot simpler if this wasn't necessary.
Agreed. I originally added this because the code locked the door at pktsetup time and required a valid CD in the drive at "pktsetup -d" time. Therefore, without this check, you could get into the nasty situation where you needed to put a CD in the drive to be able to run pktsetup -d, but you couldn't do it because the drive door was locked. I have changed this so that no CD is needed when setting up/tearing down the pktcdvd device, and so that the drive door is only kept locked while the device is opened for read or write. This should make it possible to setup pktcdvd0 once and then mount/umount/insert/remove discs at will. This change is included in the new patch for 2.4.18-pre3: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/packet-2.4.18-pre3.patch.b... -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340