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Re: dvd+rw-tools: DVD-RW discs are burned as "protected" on LG GSA-4163B



Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> >> It is present on a lot more machines than SCSI CD/DVD drives these days. 
> >> While it's true that the user can suppress it, it's present in the major 
> >> distributions, and I can't remember seeing any Linux system with /proc 
> >> disabled in years.
> >>     
> >
> > 1) Things like this do not beling into /proc
> >
> > 2) This kind of "interface" was subject to many incompatible changes
> >   during the past years. If it stays stable for at least 2-3 years, we may
> >   talk again about a pissibility of using it...
> >   
> I just checked, it's in 2.4.18, Redhat 8.0 release, so it goes back to 
> at minimum June 2002, it would seem to be pretty stable. Where it 
> belongs is arguable, but it hasn't moved in a very long time.

Do you like to speak about Linux or about some RedHat fork?


> > Come back to reallity!
> >
> > No optical drive will allow you to write whithout SCSI.
> >
> > You seem to forget, that a memory stick is SCSI, a CD/DVD writer is SCSI
> > and many other devices are SCSI..... a properly designed OS would implement
> > a proper integration of SCSI devices instead of breaking an existing 
> > integration.
>
> None of that stuff is SCSI, it uses the SCSI command set, actually a 

If you refuse to inform yourself about what SCSI is (See t10.org)
we need to stop this discussion here.

Jörg

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