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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    On 2/13/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
    [...]
    > > > Since -scanbus tells you a
    > > > device is a CDrecorder, or something else, *any user* is likely to be
    > > > able to tell it from DCD, CD-ROM, etc. Nice like of text for most devices...
    > >
    > > Well, "any user" just opens his Windows Explorer and takes a look at the
    > > icon of his drive D:\\ to see whether it's a CD-ROM or DVD. It is
    > > interesting to see professional programmers often argue that a
    >
    > This is not true: a drive letter mapping does not need to exist on MS-WIN
    > in order to be able to access it via ASPI or SPTI.

    But from a user perspective, how one is supposed to identify between 2
    identical burners named D: and E: on their system if cdrecord only
    provides b,t,l naming and "b,t,l to cd burner name" mapping?

    The "OS specific to b,t,l" mapping is clearly lacking although
    cdrecord knows it there as well. Cf. scsi-wnt.c:

    #ifdef _DEBUG_SCSIPT
    js_fprintf(scgp_errfile, "SPTI: Adding drive %c: (%d:%d:%d)\n", 'A'+i,
    pDrive->ha, pDrive->tgt, pDrive->lun);
    #endif

    Jerome
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