Some drives are reported to erase CD-RW media with the ATA
commands we send.
Thanks to Christoph Stritt <phoenix@jobob.com> for his debugging.
Original bug is here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556635
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/cdrom.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include "libudev.h"
goto fail;
}
+ /*
+ * do not confuse optical drive firmware with ATA commands
+ * some drives are reported to blank CD-RWs
+ */
+ if (ioctl(fd, CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, NULL) >= 0) {
+ errno = EIO;
+ ret = -1;
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
/* So, it's a block device. Let's make sure the ioctls work */
if ((ret = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &size)) < 0)
goto fail;