On Monday 21 February 2005 05:17, Maik Zumstrull wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > James Finnall wrote: > > >Everytime I use cdrecord under Linux 2.6 kernel and reference the > > > drive by the /dev/devid it responds with the following: > > > > > >Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. > > > > > >If I use: "cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus" then it reports only the > > > two drives I have connected through firewire on scsibus0 and > > > scsibus1. It doesn't report my PATA drive at all. > > > > You appear to be running a stock cdrecord version, which complains > > about write by device name, but works. If the message bothers you > > there are modified versions which also will burn DVDs if you have the > > hardware. I won't get into the reasons why this happens, Joerg wants > > it to work that way. You can use ATA or ATAPI, but you don't get rid > > of the warnings, so why bother? > > 1) Use ATA, not ATAPI. ATAPI uses a very old API with no DMA support. > 2) Wenn using ATA, just do a cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus and you get > something like: > I just installed Slackware 10.1 on another machine yesterday and dev=ATA works on it and reports the available drive. It is using version 2.01. My current machine is Slackware 10 and it uses version 2.00.3 and dev=ATA doesn't work. So it looks like it is best to upgrade the cdrecord.
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