Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Nicholas Miell]

[ Different address, hopefully mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de won't drop it
this time. For those of you who've already seen this once, sorry. ]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:17, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> From the > 20 platforms that libscg provides abstractions from, _most_
> platforms do not allow the "UNIX" /dev/something method to work with
> Generic SCSI:
> 
[ long list omitted ]
> 
> These are the platforms where /dev/something could work:
> 
[ shorter list omitted ]
> 
> As you see, the vast majority does not allow the addressing method the
> people on LKML seem to prefer recently.
> 
> Jrg

As a user of cdrecord, could you explain to me why referring to my CD
burner as 1,0,0 is preferable to /dev/cdrw?

-- Nicholas


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