Re: kexpress

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> 
> On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> >> 
> >
> >/dev/scd1 is the same device than /dev/sr1 try using this name if
> >/dev/sr1 doesn't exist.
> >
> >-- 
> >			Jean Francois Martinez
> 
> You did it again Jean, it worked, but, always a but, it tells me it is write
> protected, how do I get around that? Wait, I will try a different CD. Well,
> when I can unmnt it, darn it.
> 

Because /dev/scd1 is the CD ROM device.  The writer device is /dev/sg1
and you should not use it directly but through one of the CD writer
devices for Linux: it happens that Linux does not drive CD writing
directly, instead it provides a channel allowing a program to deal
with a CD writer.


> Bud, who is keeping Jean away from completeing Indy
> 

:-)

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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