cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> In message <473DD94D.8050605 at samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
> > But then why not have g_access be able to communicate the ability to
> > access the device independent from the ability to access the media?
> > Seems like both of these questions are "access" questions.
> Because that is a lot more work for no benefit I can see ?

There is another closely related problem which also needs fixing and
which also requires GEOM to distinguish between device and media: GEOM's
behaviour when the media changes while the device is open (e.g. burning
a CD).  AFAIK, it is not currently possible to properly fixate a CD-R in
FreeBSD; the CDRIOCFIXATE ioctl always fails because once the media has
changed (from blank to non-blank), all access fails until you close and
reopen the device.

DES
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