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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > For a read-only access, I think the size is what's written, while for > > writing it's the physical size, I think. Does it need to be as complex as > > having the order depend on the access mode? It seems that a size of zero > > is correct for a read access to an unwritten media. > > Well, there is only one capacity and we cannot tell at the time we > fetch the capacity from the drive whether the user will use the disk > read-only or read-write. > > In any case, cdrom_read_capacity() is the only thing that works on my > MO drive, the other methods all fail. So my patch from yesterday changes > the order of things so that read_capacity is used first to get the > capacity, and the other methods are allowed to override it's findings > later on. And that sounds like the correct thing to do. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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