>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 1 18:14:22 2000
>A recent posting on the SANE newsgroup reported the "scsi_info"
>program failing. A cause for this failure on a recent 2.3 series
>kernel is that the SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN ioctl made available
>by the SCSI mid-level code (and hence to all scsi device
>file descriptors) has changed. The cdrecord application is
>also effected by this change.
>> "four_in_one" is made up as follows:
>> (scsi_device_id | (lun << 8) | (channel << 16) | (host_no << 24))
>> These 4 components are assumed (or masked) to be 1 byte each.
>>
>> The 'host_no' element is a change in lk 2.3/2.4 kernels. [In the lk 2.2
>> series and prior it was 'low_inode & 0xff' of the /proc pseudo file system
>> entry corresponding to the adapter/host.] This change makes the use of the
>> SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER ioctl superfluous.
As cdrecord only uses this number to have one more criteria to do the mapping,
I would assume that cdrecord will work as before.
Did you definitely observe problems?
J�rg
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