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From: Andreas Metzler <lkml-2003-03@downhill.at.eu.org>
Subject: Re: ide-cd problems
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:26:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
[...] 
> just says that open-by-device name is unintentional, it doesn't give you
> warnings on the transport.
> 
> So in short (and repeating): don't use ATAPI (CDROM_SEND_PACKET), it
> sucks. Use SG_IO (which means using open-by-device, which works at least
> as well as the stupid faked ATAPI bus/id/lun crap and has the much
> better transport). Don't compare apples and oranges.

FWIW cdrecord's author prefers dev=ATA:x,y,z, which uses SG_IO *and* gets
rid of the open-by-device-warning.
                cu andreas