Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:24:40 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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"Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote:
> On 02/09/06 06:14:40PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > Does cdrecord talk to CPU devices? No! Why do you care? BTW: What > > the hell is a "CPU device" and why the hell would you think you could > > talk to it through a disk interface, let alone some other random SCSI > > interface? > > > > We have several fiber controllers and the controller itself does show up as > a SCSI device that sg can bind to, I believe the management software can > actually manage the storage via that node but we've never used it and I > highly doubt anyone uses cdrecord or libscg for that purpose.
In fact, a "CPU device" (*) was it, that did give the initial push for my SCSI activities in January 1985 and that did lead to the first SCSI genric driver /dev/scg and libscg in August 1986.
*) Really a scanner but Scanner devices had not been defined by the SCSI stabdard in 1985.
Jörg
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