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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Schilling)
Fri Feb 12 11:56:22 1999

Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:39:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
To: michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Cc: Dominik.Stadler@btk.de, bsc@fleggaard.dk,
	cdwrite@lists.debian.org, dgilbert@interlog.com,
	heiko_eissfeldt@z.detesystem.de, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
	p7003ad@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au,
	tn@tarantel.rz.fh-muenchen.de, xiphmont@mit.edu


>From michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de Fri Feb 12 17:21:12 1999


>On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 02:04:30PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> I thought that this mailing list is related to CD-writing and related themes.
>> Cdrecord hast been written for Solaris and then ported to other platforms.
>> It still maintained and enhanced on Solaris mostly because the Solaris
>> driver interface will give me the information I need to verify my code
>> and most other OS including Linux won't give me that information.

>Um - this may explain my confusion with your answers: *I* am reading this
>thread on linux-scsi ... so I did not quite understand why other platforms
>should be important.

Right.

The original intend was to talk about enhancements to the sg driver to make
it less bad compared to drivers available on other operating systems.

In any case, a noticable background was portability and the features of cdrecord.

Jörg

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