From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265467AbTLHQ23 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:28:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265479AbTLHQ02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:26:28 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:54533 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265464AbTLHQYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:24:41 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer Date: 8 Dec 2003 16:13:22 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031206084032.A3438@animx.eu.org> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1070900002 15793 192.168.12.62 (8 Dec 2003 16:13:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Linus Torvalds wrote: | > On every PC I have that has an ide cd drive, I use | > ide-scsi. I like the fact that scd0 is the cdrom drive. | | And you liked the fact that you were supposed to write "dev=0,0,0" or | something strange like that? What a piece of crap it was. Actually, dev=0,0,0 or dev=/dev/hdc are neither particularly portable; each can be something else on another machine. At least /dev/sr0 (or scd0 if you go to that church) are a bit less likely to change. Joerg made the point at one time that the 0,0,0 notation will allow use of devices with no inode. That's not been useful to me, but it's probably true ;-) If I were going to do that at all, I would have used controller, bus, device, LUN notation, (0,0,0,0) and been done with it. Joerg marches to the beat of another drummer, however, maybe even a whole other brass band. He wrote it, he invites people to not use it if they don't like it, which I've heard in other contexts. ;-) -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.