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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-01-25:
>
> > > You are perfectly free to adjust your compatibility layer accordingly.
> >
> > The Linux Kernel fols unfortunately artificially hides information for the
> > /dev/hd* interface making exactly this compatibility impossible.
>
> What information is actually missing? You keep talking about phantoms,
> without naming them. Again: device enumeration doesn't count, libscg
> already does that.

I am not talking about phantoms, I am always requestung the same things.
It only seems that people here ignore these issues.

The only integrative (and this useful for libscg) interface on Linux is /dev/sg*

/dev/hd* may look nice if you only look skin-deep

How do you e.g. like send SCSI commands to ATAPI tape drives on Linux?

Jörg

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