Hello, Mark. Mark Lord wrote: > Last question: what about CD/DVD writers? > > Are the data-out commands for those done via block, or via SG_IO ? > (my memory fails me here). > > Do they ever get speed up/down based on WRITE errors ? That depends on how the writing commands are issued. If the commands are issued via SG_IO (which is the case for wodim and probably for others too), it won't affect speed down. If the commands are issued by writing to /dev/sr0, it will. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html