Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote:
> 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.
cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi
interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :)
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