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

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On 2/2/06, Jim Crilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/02/06 12:17:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Jim Crilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Every other method to access those devices uses the device name, i.e.
> > > mount, fsck, etc, so why should cdrecord be different?
> >
> > inadequateness on Linux did force libscg to go this way.
> >
>
> And inadequacies are what's causing libscg and 'cdrecord -scanbus' to fail
> to list all IDE devices on Linux. Unless the comments about it stopping the
> scan after getting -EPERM on one device are wrong.

I'm seeing even worse behavior. Since /dev/hda is a disk with mounted
filesystems, my kernel refuses access even for root. Thus, even root
is unable to scan the /dev/hd* devices!
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