more information on my trouble reading CDROM's with hdc=ide-cd. Anybody else?

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:54:49AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Really? Because using the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() on the device file we get

Yes - see the specification.

> Yah. Is that hard, e.g. can it be done within a reasonable time frame?
> I'd hate to put yet another special case into hal to work around a
> kernel bug.

It depends when someone with a detailed knowledge of the new block queueing
layer in 2.6 has time to look at it. I'm not sufficiently familiar with that
code to do it quickly.