Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:03:18 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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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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