Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:33:31 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ide-cd problems |
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On Mon, Aug 02 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > [...] > > just says that open-by-device name is unintentional, it doesn't give you > > warnings on the transport. > > > > So in short (and repeating): don't use ATAPI (CDROM_SEND_PACKET), it > > sucks. Use SG_IO (which means using open-by-device, which works at least > > as well as the stupid faked ATAPI bus/id/lun crap and has the much > > better transport). Don't compare apples and oranges. > > FWIW cdrecord's author prefers dev=ATA:x,y,z, which uses SG_IO *and* gets > rid of the open-by-device-warning.
(don't trim linux-kernel cc lists!)
Well good for him, that's why he didn't drop that idiotic warning. I think the x,y,z naming for ATAPI devices is utter stupidity.
-- Jens Axboe
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