cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

[Shawn Yarbrough <shawn@nailstorm.com>]

I have a CD writer located at '/dev/burner'.

It's an IDE drive, but I use ide-scsi to make it look like a SCSI device
with bus ID '1,1,0'.

It works fine.  I've just always wondered why I have to do 'cdrecord
dev=1,1,0 disk.iso' instead of the more obvious 'cdrecord /dev/burner
disk.iso'.  Surely some part of the kernel knows that /dev/burner is
SCSI ID '1,1,0'.  I can mount /dev/burner on, say, /cdrom as a read-only
mount and it reads CDs with no problem.

Can anybody explain this?  Thanks.


Shawn Yarbrough
shawn@nailstorm.com