Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:41:16 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-01-31:
> Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > What Linux does is to artificially prevent this view to been seen from outside the > > > Linux kernel, or to avoid integrating a particular device into a unique SCSI > > > driver system although it would be apropriate. > > > > How exactly does Linux prevent this??? > > By not treating ATAPI the same as all other SCSI devices.
Nonsense. cdrecord can access ATAPI devices, fix your libscg device enumeration.
> > How do you perform -scanbus for TCP/IP? :-) > > There are various programs that do that for you. > You could e.g. send a ping to the broadcast address in order to find hosts > that are on the local network.
Responding to broadcast ping, at least when outside the LAN, is considered a security issue.
> > Scanning for all available CD burners is of course a nice feature, but > > I don't think it should be implemented by asking all existing SCSI-like > > devices if they are a CD burner (for example because there can be an > > almost infinite number of them, given that you can do SCSI-over-IP > > and other similar tricks). The problem of presenting devices to the > > And while this kind of scanning works in case that you have all devices > integrated inside a single SCSI implementation, it does not work for ATAPI > because someont artificially decided to exclude one single SCSI transport > from the global view.
You need to work around this anyhow because the already-released 2.6 kernels will not be going away in the next 2 - 3 years even if 2.6 were fixed today.
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