Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Date | 31 May 2005 18:59:01 +0200 |
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Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:
> If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you > are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere. > > Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable > and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours.
Not really. Yes, it runs on different operating systems. But to send the SCSI commands to the device you have OS-specific code in there, simply because it's handled in different ways on Solaris / Linux / whatever OS. You could make the device addressing OS-specific as well instead of expecting everyone in the world follow the Solaris model, that would make life a bit easier for everyone involved.
Addressing IDE devices (try to get a real SCSI burner these days) using scsi host+target+lun is sort-of silly IMHO ...
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