On Feb 17, 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > > just my crappy USB CD drive :) > > It's a Linux kernel problem. I have seen it with a dozen different > drives since Debian 8 of 2015, kernel 3.x.
Ah, I've only had (crappy) USB drives since the 2008-era laptop's internal drive went wonky in, um 2010 or '12 or somewhere thereabouts. Good to know it's a larger issue, in the event I ever get a tower, or otherwise decent CD drive. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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