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Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?



Alson van der Meulen wrote:
> cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi
> interface  (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :)


Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the kernel CD-ROM
drivers are read-only drivers?  If so then it seems that someday that
read-write functionality might be moved out of cdrecord and into the
kernel itself.

Shawn Yarbrough
shawn@nailstorm.com



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