On 7/20/05, Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:22 +0530, Manas Laha wrote: > > >>Folks, > >> > >>What is the scene regarding writing CDs with cdrecord under kernel 2.6? > >>Ide-scsi doesn't seem to be needed anymore. So, what options work best, > >>etc.? What is the experience of you all here? I shall be grateful for > >>any information. > >> > >> > > Apropos of my earlier question and the answers I received in response, I > am trying, in a shell script, to identify which IDE device my CDwriter > is. At the moment the best I can think of is something like: > > dmesg | grep ATAPI | grep "ROM" | cut -d: -f1 > Another good choice is uname -r for kernel version, uname -a for all
> On my system this works because I have only one CD device. However, > other systems may have more. Is there a way to identify with certainty > which is the CD writer? > > I have a shell script that lets me drive cdrecord, with its myriad > options, as I need to. So far it assumed ide-scsi but now I want to > generalise it so that it behaves according to the version of the kernel > the machine is running. I am identifying the kernel version through: > > cut -d' ' -f3 < /proc/version | cut -d'.' -f1,2 > > I shall be grateful for any responses. > > - Manas Laha > > > ***************************************** > This Mail is Certified to be Virus Free. > CIC Network Security Group, IIT Kharagpur > ***************************************** > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
