From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:24:40 +0100
To: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net
Cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz,
       matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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"Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote:

> On 02/09/06 06:14:40PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > Does cdrecord talk to CPU devices? No! Why do you care?  BTW: What  
> > the hell is a "CPU device" and why the hell would you think you could  
> > talk to it through a disk interface, let alone some other random SCSI  
> > interface?
> > 
>
> We have several fiber controllers and the controller itself does show up as
> a SCSI device that sg can bind to, I believe the management software can
> actually manage the storage via that node but we've never used it and I
> highly doubt anyone uses cdrecord or libscg for that purpose.

In fact, a "CPU device" (*) was it, that did give the initial push for my SCSI
activities in January 1985 and that did lead to the first SCSI genric driver
/dev/scg and libscg in August 1986.


*) Really a scanner but Scanner devices had not been defined by the SCSI
stabdard in 1985.


J?rg

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