> >> I am not sure if I understood your other mail on the cdrecord ML, but if >> the proper syntax would be >> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc:@ >> then >> /dev/hdc >> could just be transparently turned into >> /dev/hdc:@ >> somewhere within the getopt part. > >See complete description, the :@ is not just for fun.... > "If the name of the device node that has been speciā–  fied on such a system refers to exactly one SCSI device, a shorthand in the form dev= devicename:@ or dev= devicename:@,lun may be used instead of dev= devicename:scsibus,target,lun." So @ is equal to 0,0,0 or 0,0? Threads indicated that every device under linux is "exactly one SCSI device", which is why I was asking for this behind-the-scenes translation of /dev/hdc into /dev/hdc:@. >> for other OS: >> cdrecord -dev=/dev/acd0 on FreeBSD > >Will not work > I think mount uses this syntax (`mount /dev/acd0 /mnt`). Jan Engelhardt --