[Debburn-devel] Re: Bug#413960: wodim: fails to burn with dev='0, 0, 0' but burns with dev='/dev/sr0'

[Vladimir Nadvornik]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 01:58, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> This just does not add up. The only difference is IMO the driver used by
> /dev/sgX vs. /dev/sr0 (sg vs. sg_io). sg_io works pretty well, while sg
> does weird things: after few data writes it starts returning false sense
> codes indicating that the drive is busy (04/08, long drive in progress).
> So wodim keeps retrying, which is the correct way to do in order to not
> come to late. And after few dozens of retry it returns weird stuff and
> the process breaks.
>

This seems to be the same problem as here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226019

There is no shared lock between sg and sr, some other program (HAL)
accesses the device in parallel and LG burners don't like it.

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Vladimir Nadvornik