On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> wrote:
> 
> 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" ;)

My answer to that:

$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Nov 18  2000 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cd5a

(also useful for printer, modem, et. al.)

and

	$ command -v  cdwrite
	/usr/local/bin/cdwrite
	$ cat `command -v  cdwrite`
	cdrecord -v dev=/dev/rcd0d $1

If I can't remember what I did last time, which happens more often than
I'd like, "ls /usr/local/bin" usually provides the hint I need.  

--jkl