On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:00:26 -0800 Jim Bonnet <jimbo@caldera.com> wrote:
Nope.. After poking around a bit here is what I see... They are the same device right, not raw or other, because the have the same major/minor #.. Looks like some distros use /dev/scd0 and some call it /dev/sr0.. look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt and check it out.. Regardless, they are the first SCSI cdrom..
I've seen this with tape drivers before. You can have a "non-rewinding" driver, or a "rewinding driver", and others. They all can use the same tape drive, if the drive supports it. So I'll bet there is some subtle difference in them which the software developers use to their advantage. Probably one is "writing" and the other is read-only, or something like handles buffering different, etc. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}