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Re: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Schilling)
Fri Feb 12 11:03:12 1999

Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:33:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
To: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au, xiphmont@mit.edu
Cc: Dominik.Stadler@btk.de, axboe@image.dk, bsc@fleggaard.dk,
	cdwrite@lists.debian.org, dgilbert@interlog.com,
	heiko_eissfeldt@z.detesystem.de, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
	michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de


>From cdwrite-request@other.debian.org Fri Feb 12 04:34:46 1999
>From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>

>xiphmont@mit.edu writes:
>> 
>> Michael wrote:
>> >I must admit I came rather late into this thread, so I don't
>> >understand what you mean by "requiring attachment".
>> 
>> Under CAM, a generic scsi device does not refer to any particular
>> piece of hardware.  The device is oppened, then attached to a specific
>> bus:target:lun combination.

>Gross. Doesn't make sense at all. One device per real device. That's
>the way it always has been and the way it always should be. Someone

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
This is not true! Please read my mail that I just send as a reply to
Monty.

DLPI type 2 devices need to be set up to a specific Physical point of 
atachment before you may be connected to a soecific piece of hardware.
This is standard UNIX behaviour foe more than 10 years.
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

>said this was a symbios thing. I checked

Symbios is only the primary site for X33t10 standard documents.

>ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io/
>and I didn't see anything that was obviously about CAM.

ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io/x3t10/drafts/cam

What's the problem?

Jörg

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