From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262228AbUK3RxA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:53:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262222AbUK3RuH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:50:07 -0500 Received: from smtp09.auna.com ([62.81.186.19]:48554 "EHLO smtp09.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262220AbUK3Rtr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:49:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:49:44 +0000 From: "J.A. Magallon" Subject: Re: cdrecord dev=ATA cannont scanbus as non-root To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1101763996l.13519l.0l@werewolf.able.es> <1101765555l.13519l.1l@werewolf.able.es> <20041130071638.GC10450@suse.de> <1101834765l.8903l.4l@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: (from jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de on Tue Nov 30 18:37:31 2004) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.6 Message-Id: <1101836984l.13015l.0l@werewolf.able.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2004.11.30, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >I use udev, so there is no hd[a-d] nodes on /dev. And cdrecord > >_EXITS_ as soon as it founds a non-existent device !!! > > You can find something that does not exist? Err, as it tries to open a device and it does not exist. I tries sequentially hda, hdb, hdc.. up to 256 until it finds something to open. If it exists, but has not permissions, it keeps trying on the next. But if it is not present, cdrecord gives up. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-rc2-jam3 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #1