Re: Issues with cdrsin and USB devices on RHEL5

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > # cdrskin --devices
> > cdrskin 0.4.8 : limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn
> > 0  dev='/dev/hdc'  rwrw-- :  'HL-DT-ST'  'DVDRAM GSA-4163B'
> > ...
> > # ls /dev/sr*
> > ls: /dev/sr*: No such file or directory
> > # ls /dev/sc*
> > /dev/scd0
> >     
>
> By default cdrskin will accept /dev/scdN or /dev/sgM but
> finally insists in seeing a /dev/srN.
>
> You may push it towards /dev/scdN by adding option
>   drive_scsi_dev_family=scd
>
> The problem will be solved in upcomming version 0.5.0.
> (It also affects xorriso which can only be helped
> by creating a /dev/sr0 softlink.)
>
>
>   
> > Note that hda is my hard disk, I don't know why cdrskin tries to use it.
> >     
>
> libburn would know that it is not a CD drive
> after opening it. But it may not open a CD drive
> in the progress of burning.


Dumb question, why do you not look at the nice list of CD devices 
provided by the Linux kernel, and assume that anything not on that list 
is not going to work for CD uses, no matter what it is, or thinks it is.

/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info

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