Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:30:04 -0500 | From | sean <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:05:42 +0100 Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > If you open e.g. /dev/cam or /dev/scg?, you open device that is not related > to a high level service like /dev/hd* and this unfortunately is unable to talk > to other devices in the same entity (e.g. ATAPI tapes). > > With /dev/cam or similar you get a single handle for a group of devices that > than are addressed via something very similar to dev=b,t,l >
So what? Why is it so important to have just a single handle in this case as opposed to multiple handles?
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