Robert Elz [Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:45:42PM +0700]:
>     Date:        Tue, 7 Oct 2003 02:19:39 -0500
>     From:        Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20031007071939.GA21083@olib.org>
> 
>   | > cdrecord is not supposed to work with /dev/ entries;
> 
> That comment was utter nonsense - better would be to say that the author
> of cdrecord believes that relying on /dev/entries is bad for the health
> (he's wrong, but never mind) and prefers to make people go scan busses
> (assuming they somehow know enough about computer busses to know which
> to scan) find a set of meaningless numbers, and use those.

I'd rather scan SCSI bus each time I burn the CD, than search for... was it
"cd0", "acd0", "rwcd0c" or ... ? Let's check dmesg... not there, overriden...
/var/run/dmesg.boot... no such file? Ah, it's some Linux... what now...
let's try each one...

- compare it to "cdrecord -scanbus" ;)

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