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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 04:15:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Cc:        dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CD interface
Message-ID:  <199601020915.EAA29529@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960101222632.15953A-100000@ivory.lm.com> from "Peter Berger" at Jan 1, 96 10:30:21 pm

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> Note that the xmcd package -WILL NOT WORK ON 2.1 SYSTEMS- as distributed, 
> because of this.
> 
> Why is scsi_ioctl.c returning EACCESS in this case?  Is there a rationale 
> for it?  It just seems like a check without a problem....

The rational is to prevent someone with read-ony access to the device
from being able to do things like "allow removal" and "eject the disk".

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Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267



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