[Debburn-devel] Re: README.Linux needs de-FUDification

[scdbackup at gmx.net]

Hi,

> Note that there also the ATAPI:... device access method using an
> undocumented (?) backdoor, however its usage is NOT RECOMMENDED and the
> support may be removed in future versions.

It seems to use CDROM_SEND_PACKET. I found strong words
by Jens Axboe not to use it for writing at all.
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/2/125

The start of that google endeavor was the stunning fact
that growisofs can talk via a /dev/sr block device on
a 2.4 kernel. A stunt which we SG_IO users could do on
2.6 but not on ide-scsi on 2.4.

Andy regrets the demise of CDROM_SEND_PACKET in
transport.hxx:
  // was CDROM_SEND_PACKET declared dead in 2.5?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas