Daniel SILVERSTONE (D.Silverstone@cs.ucl.ac.uk),
"PROBLEM: cdrecord fails with "Cannot send SCSI command via IOCTL" with Kernel 2.2.1":
> When I boot with a kernel 2.2.1 I cannot write to the drive at all (not even
> in dummy mode) due to the error:
>
> cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
you may want to look at D. Gilbert's sg linux page at
http://www.netwinder.org/~dougg/ he claims his driver doesn't suffer that
hard under memory fragmentation as the origina does. I can't comment, I
haven't tested it yet.
Rainer
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