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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0703302107140.31834@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:09:36 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To: Eduard Bloch <edi@....de>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, debburn-devel@...ts.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: broken device locking, sg vs. sg_io on block devices
On Mar 30 2007 16:21, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>>
>> First the hardsware is broken when it can't deal with concurrent requests,
>> I'd try to get a refund for it. Second wodim should never ever use
>> /dev/sg if the sr node is available. And third HAL should stop poking
>> devices all the time. Then again hald is a totally lost cause and
>> I can only recommend to uninstall it ASAP.
As part of opensuse 10.2, I do have hald running. It has not interfered
with cd writing so far. Though, I do not run any automounter like autofs or
ivman.
> - there is a fixed mapping between the fake-SCSI numbers and devices
> established by Schilling.
It accepts dev=/dev/hdc, even if noone wants to admit it.
> - hald is installed together with KDE. Do you suggest to remove KDE as
> well? I don't think so.
hald is installed as part of the base system, not kde. (If I uninstall it,
stuff like battery status on textconsole ceases to work here.)
Jan
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