Hugh McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now, people may complain "what about the scan time on a system with
> hundreds of drives". I think the same complaint may have been raised
> during cdrw development, but the ease of use argument won out, as well
> as "well in that case, specify dev=...".
If you have set up /etc/default/cdrecord you do not need to specify
dev=
> The other issue would be the following error I get:
>
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
> dependent defaults.
This is because I am just in a several year transition period where
the default TAO is converted to "the best mode fot this drive".
> [........................]
> Supported modes: PACKET SAO
> cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
> cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.
>
> Ideally when choosing a default mode, it might be good to check the list
> of supported modes first, and then don't pick TAO unless it's supported.
Well, this is the pitfall of extreme interface stability.
If you need to change things, you nead to go through a transioion period.
> PS: on my system at least, cdrecord seems to win in the always-important
> "not burning coaster DVDs" stakes though, unlike cdrw, which dies at the
> start for some reason. So I'm grateful for this, but it would certainly
> be nice not to have to specify "dev=whatever".
Set up /etc/default/cdrecord.
Letting it cdrecord do for you in case there is no official setup may
cause problems that I like to avoid.
Jörg
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