Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:13:46 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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> >- you don't need -scanbus. If >users think they do, it's either because Joerg brain washed them or >because they have been used to that bad interface since years ago when >it was unfortunately needed.
Now you're unfair. -scanbus does a nice output of what cdwriters (and other capable devices) are present. For me, that lists the cd writer and a CF slot from the multitype usb flash reader.
There's one kind of not-so-advanced linux newbies that just go to walmart, buy a computer and whack a linux system on it for fun, and they still don't know if their cdrom is at /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. Looking for dmesg is usually a nightmare for them, and apart that -scanbus lists scsi host,id,lun instead of /dev/hd* (don't comment on this kthx), it is convenient for this sort of users to find out what's available.
So, and what about that compactflash reader? It is subject to dynamic usb->scsi device association (depending on when you connect it, it may either become sda, or sdb, or sdc, etc.), and -scanbus yet again provides some way (albeit not useful, because it lists scsi,id,lun rather than /dev/sd* - don't comment either) to see where it actually is.
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