Please see this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105430004000003&r=1&w=2.

Jordan

--- uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm recording CD-R/W media with cdrecord using
> dev=<ide device> without
> problems but I tried to use readcd in order to read
> media in raw mode 
> and doesn't work:
> 
> agapito:/home/ulisses# readcd dev=/dev/hdc
> f=/dev/null
> Read  speed:  8450 kB/s (CD  48x, DVD  6x).
> Write speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x).
> Capacity: 359819 Blocks = 719638 kBytes = 702 MBytes
> = 736 prMB
> Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes
> Copy from SCSI (0,0,0) disk to file '/dev/null'
> end:    359819
> readcd: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI
> cmd via ioctl
> agapito:/home/ulisses# readcd dev=/dev/hdc
> f=/dev/null
> 
> the error message comes from:
> 
> ioctl(3, 0x2285, 0xbffff570)            = -1 ENOTTY
> (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> where the file descriptor is the IDE device
> 
> I would like to help if this is a kernel flaw
> 
> I was not sure were I should post this because Joerg
> Schilling doesn't
> support it's tools for IDE devices (not SCSI
> emulated) on Linux
> 
> Thanks all
> 
> 	Ulisses
> 
> PD: I had a crazy idea, there are a lot of Install
> Parties, why not "Bug
> hunting fests/sessions" before 2.6 reach the street?
> 
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