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

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> >> >Please explain me:
> >> >
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to scan an image from a scanner
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a CPU device
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a tape device
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a printer
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a jukebox
> >> >-	how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a graphical device
> >> >
> >> With /dev/sg, this was possible?
> >
> >Of course!
> >
> But you need to open the correct /dev/sg[0-9] too, don't you?
> (otherwise cdrecord would set the jukebox on fire)

This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of
libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a
stable b,t,l address.



Jörg

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