Re: ide-cd problems

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Aug 02 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...] 
> > just says that open-by-device name is unintentional, it doesn't give you
> > warnings on the transport.
> > 
> > So in short (and repeating): don't use ATAPI (CDROM_SEND_PACKET), it
> > sucks. Use SG_IO (which means using open-by-device, which works at least
> > as well as the stupid faked ATAPI bus/id/lun crap and has the much
> > better transport). Don't compare apples and oranges.
> 
> FWIW cdrecord's author prefers dev=ATA:x,y,z, which uses SG_IO *and* gets
> rid of the open-by-device-warning.

(don't trim linux-kernel cc lists!)

Well good for him, that's why he didn't drop that idiotic warning. I
think the x,y,z naming for ATAPI devices is utter stupidity.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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