Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 10:50:19 EST


On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Please try again after you had a look into the cdrtools sources.

Jrg, you are making a fool of yourself.

> Cdrecord also needs privilleges to lock memory and to raise prioirity.

Wrong. Cdrecord does not always _need_ to lock memory or to raise its
priority.

To do so may be useful when using older drives without buffer underrun
protection, but is not strictly necessary on current hardware.

> Jrg

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