On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Monty Montgomery wrote:
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> > It happens on anything after 2.6.24 (cfr.
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10974).
> > E.g. mainline 2.6.27-rc8.
> 
> Ah.
> 
> Geert, I'm sorry this has come up and thanks for bringing it to my attention.

The bugzilla link has been in the subjects of the emails all the time ;-)

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> > In this case, sg means scatter/gather, and it's a purely internal
> > interface.  It does not start/stop the drive, nor the scsi interface.
> 
> Ah, I confused it with a much older utility that would up/down an SG
> device entirely.

It is the command line utility.
James suggested to use it to load the CD.

Before that, my test sequence was less deterministic and not fully automated
(insert CD, wait until the blue LED is lit, launch cdparanoia).

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect

Sony Techsoft Centre Europe
The Corporate Village