Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:24:32 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-02-15 at 02:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >>It means: don't use the ide-scsi driver. Support for it is >>lagging (not well-maintained) because it's really not needed for >>burning CDs. Just use the ide-cd driver (module) and >>specify the CD burner device as /dev/hdX. > > > This information is unfortunately *WRONG*. The base 2.6 ide-cd driver is > vastly inferior to ide-scsi. The ide-scsi layer knows about proper error > reporting, end of media and other things that ide-cd does not. > > The -ac ide-cd knows some of the stuff that ide-cd needs to and works > with various drive/disk combinations the base code doesn't but ide-scsi > still handles CD's better. > > Alan
Thanks for the corrections, Alan.
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