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[Marios K.]

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Update on the kernel 2.6.9 issue
I finally did some testing and gathered some information on the kernel
2.6.9 problem. Here is what I can tell you:

      * Cdrecord won't run anymore when configured suid root. The reason
        is that the new kernel forbids suid root programs to use the
        SCSI subsystem (or something like that, correct me if I am
        wrong :)
        So Cdrecord needs to be configured without suid root and the
        next version of K3bSetup will do that.
        Cdrdao does not have this problem. I think that's becasue it
        drops the root privileges in an earlier stage but I am not sure
        about that.
      * K3b is unable to properly handle external (USB, Firewire)
        devices on the new kernel. Whenever the tray is open it will not
        be recognized as a CD/DVD device and if K3b is trying to access
        it while the tray is open it will get strange wrong answers from
        the device.
        I don't know how to solve this. Evenmore I think I cannot solve
        it since the dvd+rw-tools have the exact same problem. Hopefully
        this will be fixed in a future kernel version.

So what does that mean for you? Well, you have to decide for yourselves.
Since I have multiple external DVD devices I still stick to kernel 2.6.7
since otherwise I would always have to make sure the tray is not open
when starting K3b and trying to burn something. But if you don't have
any external devices and configure cdrecord properly using kernel 2.6.9
should be no problem.

Update: This issue seems to be related to SCSI devices rather than just
external.

Update II: It seems as if the problems with SCSI devices have been fixed
in kernel 2.6.10.

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Marios K. <marios_hellas_23 at yahoo.gr>