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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:

> You just want the device naming to reflect that. The user should not
> need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would
> likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his
> Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could
> help do this dynamically even.

Guess why cdrecord -scanbus is needed.

It serves the need of GUI programs for cdrercord and allows them to retrieve
and list possible drives of interest in a platform independent way.

Jörg

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