Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2

Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-29T16:36:49Z

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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:29:12PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Fedora bugzilla has demonstrated it *doesn't* work.

yes cdrecord broke due to a bug in cdrecord and a somewhat discutable
behavior difference between SG_IO and /dev/sg when it comes to oversized IO
(which cdrecord issues as a result of it's own bug)

> There is a long list
> of broken third party apps such as drive firmware tools many of which will
> never include source code. The whole point of sg is arbitary management of
> devices.

*AND SG_IO IS THAT*. You seem to ignore that consistently.
What changed is that you don't need top open some OTHER device to send
arbitrary commands to /dev/sda, but you can open /dev/sda directly to send
those commands, with the same ioctl. THAT changed. Don't tell me that very
long list of third party apps ALL doesn't take a device as argument....
undoubtedly several don't but... "long list"...

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