Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 20:06:47 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net,
       James@superbug.co.uk, j@bitron.ch, acahalan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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>> You CAN'T have multiple cdrecord processes burning the same disc at the 
>> same time; the very idea makes no sense.  The O_EXCL just prevents you 
>> from trying such foolishness and creating a coaster. 
>
>It does not prevent you from creatig a coaster in case you connect e.g.
>two ATAPI writers to the same ATA cable.
>
Apart from transfer speed issues and potential buffer underruns coming 
along with that, is there anything technically impossible with writing to 
two ATAPI drives at the same time?


Jan Engelhardt
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