Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2004 21:28, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
>
> > Perhaps this is the reason Shilling at SUSE has modified 'cdrecord'?
>
>
> :) Jörg Schilling doesn't work at SuSE. In fact he seems to hate SuSE with a 
> vengeance.
He hates Linux as the kernel developers want to phase out the crazy idea 
of ide-scsi. We went through a period when cdrtools wouldn't build on 
2.6, I think Linus corrected that, but Herr Schilling is not a happy man 
when it comes to Linux, just that SuSE riles him raw. From his homepage:-
"The user land SCSI transport implementations on Linux and *BSD (except 
FreeBSD/cam) are the worst ones.
Linux will not tell you all errors while *BSD (except FreeBSD/cam) hides 
the device files from you.
SGI does not allow SCSI disconnects on odd-byte-count boundaries.
Look for my SCSI implementation ratings."

> The modifications to cdrecord far predates the changes in the kernel, and 
> mainly concerns DVD recording I think. As far as I understand it, SuSE has 
> added dvd recording capabilities to cdrecord, which is something Schilling 
> has implemented in a different version and I don't think he likes the 
> competition.
I bypassed the crazy rants and put ide-cd into my kernels instead of 
ide-scsi and went permanently xcdroast. I tried using udftools, I was 
able for format CD-RW's, but I couldn't mount them so I could do a 
straight cp of stuff to them - that was sometime ago.
Regards
Sid.

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