From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:02:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031206220227.GA19016@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312061044450.2092@home.osdl.org>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:57:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On every PC I have that has an ide cd drive, I use
> > ide-scsi. I like the fact that scd0 is the cdrom drive.
>
> And you liked the fact that you were supposed to write "dev=0,0,0" or
> something strange like that? What a piece of crap it was.
Hey, that "piece of crap" has burned one heck of a lot of ISO images of
Linux over the years. How about a nod of thanks to the author before you
tell him you don't like his interface? And how about acknowledgement that
he made that "piece of crap" work on a lot of different Unix platforms?
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-06 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 8:01 cdrecord hangs my computer Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 8:54 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-12-06 11:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 13:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-06 14:37 ` John Bradford
2003-12-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 22:02 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-12-06 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-07 11:01 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-07 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:21 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-09 12:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-08 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-08 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-09 14:50 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-09 20:42 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 16:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-08 19:22 ` dialectical deprecation " Bob
2003-12-09 21:19 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 22:31 ` David Lang
2003-12-09 21:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08 4:36 ` Bob
2003-12-08 4:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-07 0:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-07 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:13 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:41 ` bluefaceplate demographics " Bob
2003-12-06 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 12:39 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 18:27 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 19:08 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-08 9:31 Douglas Gilbert
2003-12-11 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-11 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 13:29 Paul Marinceu
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