Joerg Schilling wrote:
People like to run cdrecord -scanbus in order to find a list of usable devices.
People like to see all SCSI devices in a single name space as they are all
using the same protocol for communication.
Except that the majority of CD writers today are NOT SCSI devices. They
may use the MMC command set from SCSI for interface purposes, but they
are on an ATA or USB bus. cdrecord tries to fabricate some kind of
device numbering assigning SCSI-like bus and LUN numbers for the devices
when such a numbering has no basis in any kind of reality.
We have all SCSI devices in a single namespace, that is what /dev is
for. That is the name that the system/kernel provides for applications
to use, and that is what the application should use, not some kind of
bizarre invented numbering scheme built on top of that.
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