Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932091AbWBRRPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932100AbWBRRPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:32 -0500 Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.48]:56740 "EHLO vms048pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932091AbWBRRPb (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:30 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) In-reply-to: <20060218120617.GA911@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig , Bill Davidsen , Daniel Barkalow , Greg KH , Nix , Jens Axboe , Joerg Schilling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200602181215.30277.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: Organization? Absolutely zip. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <878xt3rfjc.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <43F641A2.50200@tmr.com> <20060218120617.GA911@infradead.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 47 On Saturday 18 February 2006 07:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote: cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: hdc drive speed: 48 drive # of slots: 1 Can close tray: 1 Can open tray: 1 Can lock tray: 1 Can change speed: 1 Can select disk: 0 Can read multisession: 1 Can read MCN: 1 Reports media changed: 1 Can play audio: 1 Can write CD-R: 1 Can write CD-RW: 1 Can read DVD: 1 Can write DVD-R: 1 Can write DVD-RAM: 0 Can read MRW: 1 Can write MRW: 1 Can write RAM: 1 But I fail to see where this would help to 'find' the right device to write to, other than the obvious prefixing of '/dev/' to $drive name. We already knew that, and in fact it works very well. Please explain to Joerg in one syllable words he might, if he wanted to, understand. Also, I'm fuzzy about the last 3, so defining those might help me understand. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/