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linux-source-2.6.15 package

  1. Bug #11517
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 11517

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Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg) wrote :

(In reply to comment #43)
> Today I borrowed an USB hd that reproduces the problem. It seems that some USB
> devices do not like the CD-ROM eject ioctl, they want to be ejected only with
> the SCSI eject ioctl. However, the CD-ROM one can be executed as a normal user,
> while the SCSI one requires root privileges. This explains why eject works as
> root -- it's not the fault of the cdrom ioctl permission check.

But I had the same problem on an IDE CDROM drive just the other day. This
problem isn't isolated to USB devices.