On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 02:25 PM, BoBB wrote:

> It shows up as a scsi device because in previous versions of cdrecord
> there was no support for writing to atapi drives, so it had to be
> emulated as a scsi device, now though there is ATAPI writing support in
> cdrecord however cdrdao is still lacking in that area, and unless you
> only burn ISO's and data its easiest to just stick with using scsi
> emulation untill atapi writing is supported all around.

It's cool that you know that! It makes me feel better to know the basis 
for it. It seemed so arbitrary before.