Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751787AbWBQU4T (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:56:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751789AbWBQU4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:56:18 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:677 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751787AbWBQU4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:56:18 -0500 Message-ID: <43F63846.80109@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:55:34 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , "D. Hazelton" , mrmacman_g4@mac.com, peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) References: <73d8d0290602060706o75f04c1cx@mail.gmail.com> <233CD3FF-0017-4A74-BE6A-0487DF3F4EA8@mac.com> <43EC83EC.nailISD91HRFF@burner> <200602090737.47747.dhazelton@enter.net> <20060210130228.GA30256@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20060210130228.GA30256@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 31 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > You can access SCSI CDs using /dev/sr* for burning CDs. It's backed by the > same highlevel code as SG_IO on /dev/hd* while the lowerlevel handling is > done transparently by the scsi midlayer, the same code used by /dev/sg* for > the below-blocklayer handling. > This may be true if you create your own /dev entries, or are a udev guru and can get it to generate the right entries. And if you use ATAPI devices it works fine... But with Fedora and SuSE it appears that USB devices which appear as SCSI aren't functional. I tested the Fedora myself, and after killing udevd and making some entries by hand it worked once. Now if you can access SCSI burners more power to you, with FC4 up to recent updates, my one convenient real SCSI device most definitely doesn't work, and I havd to fall the system back to Slackware and 2.4 which was on it before. Because you know how to get around the problems doesn't really suggest that there aren't any. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/