On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, jd1008 wrote:
On 12/04/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:05:54 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/03/2016 05:58 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Yes, I know gui apps work.
Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to
/dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up
the device to burn discs "magically".
Michael, Michael...
I have no idea what you mean by ' burn discs "magically" '
Who said anything about magically.
I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities
in the 70's,
and linux since 1988/1989.
Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been
able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I
described.
It was not "magical". It was "actual" :) :)
Once upon a time, I forget how long ago,
I could burn a DVD using cp. I expect dd also worked.
Posters should quit whining about OP's statement that it did.
cp no longer works. I expect dd no longer works.
OP should quit whining about it.
That it used to work was not evil.
That it no longer works is not evil.
Claims to the contrary? Maybe.
What changed? I do not know.
I've recently read a claim that dd has not changed.
I've also read a claim that dd's previous behavior was broken.
That strongly suggests that dd was intentionally changed.
Device drivers might have changed.
Perhaps the mechanism to inialize writing
was moved from open for write to ioctl.
Another possibility is that the hardware might have changed.
Perhaps putting a blank disk in the burner
used to put it in burn mode automatically.
OP might have already tested this.
If the change of which he complains occurred without changing drives,
then that possibility can be eliminated.
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