Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:47:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
cc: matthias.andree@gmx.de, grundig@teleline.es, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       axboe@suse.de, acahalan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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>> This sounds like a huge difference, but I don't believe it actually is.
>> Jörg is trying to fight the system rather than stop complaining to users
>> about their using /dev/hd*. The scanning code is there and can be made
>> working with little effort probably.
>
>Talking about /dev/hd* ignore the basic problem. Show me a way how to
>send SCSI commands to a ATAPI tape drive on Linux. 

ATAPI tapes writing CDs (or tapes for that amtter). It may seem possible if 
the scsi command is the same.
Feels like making tea in a coffee machine, but hey, it's possible,
and sounds like Someone want's to have it. :)

>Please do not forget that libscg is OS _and_ device independent.

If so, how much effort is there in having libscg building an enumeration 
out of all (related to cd writing) sysfs drives?


Jan Engelhardt
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