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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:13:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Alex Nash <nash@Mcs.Net>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: Cdrecord (was HP 6020 drive compatibility)
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Joerg Wunsch writes:
> 
> >Only very slowly.  You could also have a look at Joerg Schilling's
> >cdrecord tool, it's in the ports collection, and basically bypasses
> >the kernel driver.
> 
> Wrong: Cdrecord does not bypass the kernel driver!
> 
> Cdrecord uses the SCSI kernel driver to send SCSI commands to the drive.
> The way cdrecord does this, is the only portable way across different
> UNIX platforms.

I think what Joerg meant was that cdrecord bypasses the worm driver (as
does cd-write), not the SCSI driver.

Alex