[Debburn-devel] Re: Problem recording with new system

[Vladimir Nadvornik]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:47, scdbackup at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 0    dev='/dev/sr0'   rwrw-- :  'HL-DT-ST'  'DVD-RAM GSA-H30N'
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ahum. SATA as SCSI. (I got ide-scsi. History is cyclic.)
>
> But /dev/sr* is not a traditional device address for
> Linux sg commands.
>

There is at least one problem with /dev/sg. Most other programs
(for example hal) use /dev/sr for probing optical devices and 
the O_EXCL lock is not shared between sr and sg, thus it does not 
work.
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226019 for details.

Using /dev/sr consistently should be the correct way with recent kernels.


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