>From: Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>
>> For a starter, it is easier to understand the SCSI concept of
>> addressing than to understand the Linux concept. In addition,
>> the SCSI addressing concept can be used on different platforms
>> in a unique way. This helps people (and GUI writers) to use
>> cdrecord on more than Linux only.
>whether it is easier is matter of taste, however in a situation
>where the kernel and 99% of other applications refer to something
>as '/dev/scd0' I fail to see any benefit of having another scheme.
>Do you want to suggest that all other Linux apps should now use
>'-dev x,y,z' instead of normal device names?
Did I request this? No, definitely not. Hoewver, it helps a lot
if a GUI for cdrecord may use cdrecord to find potential drives
and if there is a unique addressing scheme.
BTW: did you ever look at Solaris / HP-UX, ... and the way they
name disks?
someting like: /dev/{r}dsk/c0t0d0s0
This is SCSI bus, target, lun and slice.
>There is another problem, with your scsi transport library you
>are bypassing normal Linux devices. Try
> mount /dev/scd0 /mnt
> cdrecord -dev 0,0,0 -blank=fast
> ls -al /mnt
>Nice? It certainly isn't the fault of Linux if you choose to
>bypass normal device usage and it can be very annoying not
>only for beginners.
It is not a fault of cdrecord either.
Jörg
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