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Re: cdrtools

> -       With Linux 2.6.x, it is impossible to run cdrecord without 
>         root privs. 
>  
>         Do not believe single persons who claim otherwise as Linux-2.6.x 
>         filters away random SCSI commands when cdrecord does not have 
>         root-privs and as cdrecord heavily depends on the fact that 
>         the SCSI protocol depends on SCSI commands that "fail" because 
>         they are not supported by the actual drive in order to correctly  
>         support the features of the actual drive. 

Perhaps this stupid feud can soon become a thing of the past.
<http://lwn.net/Articles/193516/> indicates that future versions of the
kernel will allow userspace to control the list of SCSI commands that are
filtered. The cdrecord package can simply empty this list during bootup.

-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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