On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:42:17PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi > > interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :) > > > Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the kernel CD-ROM > drivers are read-only drivers? If so then it seems that someday that > read-write functionality might be moved out of cdrecord and into the > kernel itself. CD-rom drivers are read-only, that's a problem for UDF (packet writing, directCD stuff) support
burning is quite different from normal writing, it's sequential access, like a tapestreamer it could be fixed by adding some 'scsi cd writer' ddevice to the kernel, like /dev/srw0 then the kernel would handle the writing stuff instead of cdrecord, and you could just use some character special to write as long as there's no cd-r support in the kernel, you've to use programs like cdrecord that use raw scsi commands -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < `-------------------------------------------' Tell me again what that '-r' option to rm does ---------------------------------------------
