Subject: Re: cdrecord and /dev/su-X-Y-Z
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de,>
From: None <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/19/1999 16:05:14
>From feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de Fri Nov 19 14:43:12 1999


>i discovered recently that one doesn't have to have a /dev/suS-Y-Z symlink
>to /dev/cd0d and use "dev=0,Y,0" on the cdrecord command line, but that
>just "dev=/dev/cd0d" is enough. 


creating such a symlink is wrong in any case!
/dev/su* is a device driver that unfortunately is not port of a standard kernel.

>Am I missing something here, or can I just remove everything regarding 
>/dev/su* from our cdrecord packages?

If NetBSD includes /dev/su* you may even be able to scan the bus.


Jörg

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