Holly Bostick wrote: >so the correct syntax to access my burner would be > >cdrecord dev=0,0,0 whatever comes after that. > >The whole /dev/hdc thing is just not correct (it's "dev=" whatever). >Check the man page for more info. > > >
Actually Holly, both methods "should" work. I use dev=/dev/cdrw without any trouble at all. >From what I remember reading, the kernel devs prefer this, because to them, creating an artificial numbering system (bus, id, lun) for a bus topography (IDE, SATA) that doesn't use it to be just silly. They consider the whole ide-scsi thing to be an unnecessary hack. Plus, identifying things by their dynamically-assigned address on a bus doesn't work well in a hot-pluggable world. The cdrecord author prefers the dev=x,x,x syntax, because then the same syntax is used to access all CD-R[W] drives on all platforms. Neither side seems willing to accept the other's viewpoint as valid. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
