Re: cdrecord hangs my computer

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Wakko Warner wrote:
> >
> > One is just plain confusion - anybody who uses cdrecord has either been
> > confused by the silly SCSI numbering (while "dev=/dev/hdc" is not
> > confusing at all, and uses the same device you use for mounting the thing
> > etc).
>
> Actually, it would be nice if I could use dev=/dev/scd0.  I do have a scsi
> burner (and an ide one too)

It _should_ just work these days. Anything that uses "cdrom_ioctl()"
should automatically get the SCSI command translation code (which isn't
part of the scsi driver).

But hey, the scsi layer confuses me. Less than it used to, but still.

		Linus
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