Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

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Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> >> I am not sure if I understood your other mail on the cdrecord ML, but if 
> >> the proper syntax would be
> >>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc:@
> >> then
> >>   /dev/hdc
> >> could just be transparently turned into
> >>   /dev/hdc:@
> >> somewhere within the getopt part.
> >
> >See complete description, the :@ is not just for fun....
> >
>
>        "If  the name of the device node that has been speciâ? 
>        fied on such a system refers to exactly one SCSI device, a shorthand in
>        the form dev= devicename:@ or dev= devicename:@,lun may be used instead
>        of dev= devicename:scsibus,target,lun."
>
> So @ is equal to 0,0,0 or 0,0?

":@" is a shorthand for ":@,0" which is a shorthand for ":@0,0" 

There are cases where you may like to use e.g. ":@,3"

Jörg

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