On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:37:46AM -0500, D. Hazelton wrote:
> read relevant sections of the POSIX and SuS when looking at problems and know
> that the _proper_, _portable_ and _UNIX_ way of accessing devices is via the
> block device special file. For SCSI cd burners the only way (I know of) to
> access them for writing (as /dev/sr0 cannot be opened for "write")
You can access SCSI CDs using /dev/sr* for burning CDs. It's backed by the
same highlevel code as SG_IO on /dev/hd* while the lowerlevel handling is
done transparently by the scsi midlayer, the same code used by /dev/sg* for
the below-blocklayer handling.
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