Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> Please explain me:
> 
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to scan an image from a scanner
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a CPU device
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a tape device
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a printer
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a jukebox
> -	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a graphical device

Nobody speaks about using /dev/hd* for all that, just about that
there always will be a /dev/something corresponding to the device.

Also, as you have mentioned /dev/hd*, it seems that you consider
all these devices connected over ATAPI. Again an exercise in mythical
zoology as in the ATAPI tape example.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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