Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Accessing CDRW device with iSCSI?

[Ross W. <rsw...@gm...>]

On Jun 27, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Thomas Schwinge <th...@sc...> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:59:16PM -0700, Steven Umbehocker wrote:
>> This probably won't work but perhaps it's worth a shot.  Try
>> creating a loopback device like so:
>> 
>> /sbin/losetup -f /dev/sr0 --show
>> 
>> This will give you something like /dev/loop0, then create a lun for
>> it just as you did /dev/sr0 previously.  Probably a good idea to
>> make the target as read-only too:
> 
> Steve, thanks!  But: doing so certainly won't allow me to use this CDRW /
> DVD writer remotely for *writing* discs, isn't it?  Any suggestions about
> how to approach that?

IET doesn't support the SCSI media extensions needed for optical media control.

But remotely controlling optical devices isn't all it's cut out to be. It would be better to master an ISO file using Steve's method then locally burning it when complete.

It might be worth while to add support for directly accessing ISO files (read-only) using limited media extensions in the future though. Rip the ISOs to the HD then share them out as a media jukebox, but for recording, it would still be better to master them over lofs and then record locally.

-Ross