burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

Scott Long scottl at pooker.samsco.org
Fri Dec 29 03:49:03 PST 2006


Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-Dec-25 16:55:54 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
>>burncd had some nice advantages over cdrecord: it came from the BSD
>>tree, it had capabilities for burning DVD+RW images. Disadvantage was
>>the limitation to ATA interface.
> 
> 
> I see the latter as a disadvantage of cdrecord: It only works on SCSI
> drives (or via atapicam) and uses an obscure device naming approach.
> I am also more comfortable making /dev/acd0 mode 0666 than doing the
> same to /dev/pass0
> 

Did you know that ATAPI is actually just the SCSI command set that is
merely encapsulated into the IDE wire protocol?

Scott



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