From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:49:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Sformat already includes such a mapping if you are on Solaris.
> > Unfortunately this does cleanly work on Linux and for this
> > reason is did not make it into cdrecord.
>
> Jorg,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> I fail to understand how it is connected to my proposal. Maybe we
> misunderstood each other.
>
> I assume that you refer to the sformat/fmt.c implementation (sformat
> 3.5) being reproduced in cdrecord/scsi_scan.c (latest cdrtools).
>
> Could you please elaborate on:
> - what does the sformat scanbus code has to do with my proposal, whose
> changes would mostly be located in the libscg modules, not in the
> cdrecord module

What has your proposal to do with libscg and how would you like to implement
it OS independent?

> - why 'it' doesn't clearly work on Linux. cdrecord clearly creates
> this os specific to b,t,l mapping (e.g. in scsi-linux-ata.c,
> scsi-wnt.c etc..). Why this mapping cannot be publicised in a
> parseable format?

Name a method that would work for anhy type of devices and any of the
supported 21 OS.


J?rg

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