From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263713AbUHGQiC (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:38:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263714AbUHGQiC (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:38:02 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:19344 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263713AbUHGQiA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:38:00 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Nicholas Miell To: Joerg Schilling Cc: mj@ucw.cz, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200408071217.i77CHUKm006973@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408071217.i77CHUKm006973@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091896677.2821.4.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.njm.1) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 09:37:57 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:17, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From the > 20 platforms that libscg provides abstractions from, _most_ > platforms do not allow the "UNIX" /dev/something method to work with > Generic SCSI: > [ long list omitted ] > > These are the platforms where /dev/something could work: > [ shorter list omitted ] > > As you see, the vast majority does not allow the addressing method the > people on LKML seem to prefer recently. > > Jrg As a user of cdrecord, could you explain to me why referring to my CD burner as 1,0,0 is preferable to /dev/cdrw? -- Nicholas