diff -ur CDspindown-1.0b/CDspindown.c CDspindown-1.1/CDspindown.c
--- CDspindown-1.0b/CDspindown.c	Thu May 23 01:46:50 1996
+++ CDspindown-1.1/CDspindown.c	Thu Apr 29 02:06:21 1999
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
  * v1.0
  * 19 May 1996
  *
+ * v1.1 1999-04-27 Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin@linux.hr>
+ *	support for 2.2.x kernels, verbose errors
+ *
  * This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License
  *
  */
@@ -18,6 +21,12 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <linux/cdrom.h>
 
+/* This shouldn't go here, but I can't include a include from kernel! */
+#ifndef CDROMGETSPINDOWN
+	#define CDROMGETSPINDOWN        0x531d
+	#define CDROMSETSPINDOWN        0x531e
+#endif
+
 char *intervals[16] = {
 	"vendor specific",
 	"125 ms",
@@ -43,6 +52,7 @@
 char current, new;
 int arg, result, verbose=1;
 char *program_name = argv[0];
+extern errno;
 
 if ( (argc > 1) && (*argv[1] == '-') )
 	{
@@ -73,17 +83,17 @@
 	return 0;
 	}
 
-fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
-if (fd == -1)
+fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK );
+if (fd < 0)
 	{
-	fprintf(stderr, "Error opening device (code=%d).\n", errno);
+	fprintf(stderr, "Error opening device: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 	return -1;
 	}
 
 result = ioctl(fd, CDROMGETSPINDOWN, &current);
 if (result == -1)
 	{
-	fprintf(stderr, "CDROMGETSPINDOWN IOCTL error (code=%d).\n", errno);
+	fprintf(stderr, "CDROMGETSPINDOWN IOCTL error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 	return -1;
 	}
 if ( (current < 0) || (current > 15) )
@@ -110,7 +120,7 @@
 result = ioctl(fd, CDROMSETSPINDOWN, &new);
 if (result == -1)
 	{
-	fprintf(stderr, "CDROMSETSPINDOWN IOCTL error (code=%d).\n", errno);
+	fprintf(stderr, "CDROMSETSPINDOWN IOCTL error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 	return -1;
 	}
 if (verbose)