Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:26:52 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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>> Where is the difference between SG_IO-on-hdx and sg0? > >It's like the /dev/ttyS* and /dev/cua* situation, where >we also ended up with multiple device files. This is bad. > >SG_IO-on-hdx is modern. It properly associates everything >with one device, which you may name as desired.
Let's analyze a case: if /dev/sg0 would always be associated with /dev/hda, /dev/sg1 always with /dev/hdb, no matter if there was actually a hda/sg0 device present in the system - would that simplify the problem?
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