Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>> You CAN'T have multiple cdrecord processes burning the same disc at the 
>> same time; the very idea makes no sense.  The O_EXCL just prevents you 
>> from trying such foolishness and creating a coaster. 
>
>It does not prevent you from creatig a coaster in case you connect e.g.
>two ATAPI writers to the same ATA cable.
>
Apart from transfer speed issues and potential buffer underruns coming 
along with that, is there anything technically impossible with writing to 
two ATAPI drives at the same time?



Jan Engelhardt
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