Using cdrecord on 2.6.9

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:05:55PM -0600, Collins Richey took 22 lines to write:
> Just a side note, it is no longer necessary (since 2.5 days) to use
> any special scsi boot parameters for IDE cd burning. Just use (as
> root, of course) 'cdrecord --scanbus=ATA:' or 'cdrecord [-v] dev=ATA:
> ...'. Just be DAMN SURE  you don't have DMA active for the cdwriter or
> cdrecord (as well as your system) will fail miserably. Instead of
> changing code to keep up with kernel changes, the cdrecord author
> merely complains on every execution that he doesn't like the kernel
> capabilities, but it works.
> 
> An extra note 'cdrecord --scanbus' with no parameters no longer works,
> and there are indeed no /dev/??? scsci emulation devices any more.

Thank you, Collins. I'm finally getting back to this. It's unfortunate the
Joerg won't just make cdrecord play nicely with the new kernel policy.
IMHO, the new kernel policy is theoretically sound because userland 
programs messing with the SCSI bus has the potential for all sorts of 
mischief. Insofar as I'm really the only user of my desktop system, though,
the *theoretical* purity means little; I'm more interested in practical
utility. Perhaps a patch to fix the kernel capability in this regard is the
way to go.

Kurt
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