--- cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/cdrecord.c.setuid	2005-08-06 13:10:21.000000000 +0200
+++ cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/cdrecord.c	2005-08-06 13:22:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -507,6 +507,20 @@
 	if (get_cap(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 	    perror("WARNING ! Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability ! \n");
 
+	scg_settimeout(scgp, timeout);
+        scgp->verbose = scsi_verbose;
+        scgp->silent = silent;
+        scgp->debug = debug;
+        scgp->kdebug = kdebug;
+        scgp->cap->c_bsize = DATA_SEC_SIZE;
+	
+	/*      bufsize = scg_bufsize(scgp, CDR_BUF_SIZE);*/
+        bufsize = scg_bufsize(scgp, bufsize);
+        if (lverbose || debug)
+                error("SCSI buffer size: %ld\n", bufsize);
+        if ((buf = scg_getbuf(scgp, bufsize)) == NULL)
+                comerr("Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer.\n");
+	
 	/*
 	 * XXX Below this point we do not need root privilleges anymore.
 	 */
@@ -531,13 +545,6 @@
 	 * XXX It may be that we later get problems in init_faio() because
 	 * XXX this function calls raisepri() to lower the priority slightly.
 	 */
-	scg_settimeout(scgp, timeout);
-	scgp->verbose = scsi_verbose;
-	scgp->silent = silent;
-	scgp->debug = debug;
-	scgp->kdebug = kdebug;
-	scgp->cap->c_bsize = DATA_SEC_SIZE;
-
 
 	/* get the rawio capability */
 	if (get_cap(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
@@ -582,13 +589,7 @@
 	}
 	if (lverbose && driveropts)
 		printf("Driveropts: '%s'\n", driveropts);
-
-/*	bufsize = scg_bufsize(scgp, CDR_BUF_SIZE);*/
-	bufsize = scg_bufsize(scgp, bufsize);
-	if (lverbose || debug)
-		error("SCSI buffer size: %ld\n", bufsize);
-	if ((buf = scg_getbuf(scgp, bufsize)) == NULL)
-		comerr("Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer.\n");
+	
 
 	if ((flags & F_SCANBUS) != 0) {
 		select_target(scgp, stdout);