xorrecord: Drive
3 Drive preparation and addressing
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The drives, CD, DVD, or BD burners, are accessed via file addresses
which are specific to libburn and the operating system. Those addresses
get listed by a run of 'xorrecord --devices' or 'xorriso -device_links'.
On GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, the user needs rw-permission for the
device file. On Solaris, the user needs r-permission and privilege
"sys_devices", which is usually gained by running 'xorrecord' via
command pfexec.
These permissions or privileges are needed already for listing a drive.
So it might be necessary to get the overview as superuser or via pfexec.
'xorrecord' does not perform cdrecord option -scanbus and does not
accept the addresses of form Bus,Target,Lun which are told by -scanbus.
If support for these addresses is necessary, consider to use program
cdrskin.
It is possible to let 'xorrecord' work on emulated drives. Their
addresses begin by prefix "stdio:" followed by a file address. The
emulated media behavior depends on the file type. See man xorriso for
details.
If standard output is chosen as emulated drive, then all program result
texts, which usually appear on standard output, will get redirected to
standard error.
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