Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:38:04 -0700 (MST) | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist |
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl wrote:
> Here are some random ideas, please consider adding them to the > wishlist (http://www.cs.uml.edu/~acahalan/linux/wishlist.html). > Thanks! > [----------snip---------------] > - change device numbers for IDE CD-ROMs so that they are > different than those of IDE hard disks (after all, they are > completely different devices which just happen to share the > same hardware interface) for consistency with SCSI devices > (where disk and cdrom with the same SCSI ID are different - > as they should), and to avoid fdisk -l trying to read the > partition table from a CD-ROM or (worse) empty CD-ROM drive. > - support for IDE CD-R/CD-RW writers (if they are standard > like other IDE devices and unlike SCSI CD writers - are they?) [----------snip---------------] > > Thanks, > > Marek >
Well, I'm the ide-cd guy (and really the general cdrom guy). The first request you have here wouldn't be very difficult, but might confuse a lot of people. If people want this I would be glad to do it...
The second issue I am working on. For the time being, you can use the ide-scsi driver to run your ATAPI CD-R/RW drives without any problems. The latest versions of cdrecord work perfectly with ATAPI drives & ide-scsi. I am working on a native driver, but it will not be going into 2.2. (which is to say that I have been too busy at work to get much done beyond fixing existing ide-cd bugs and adding in preliminary CD-R/RW support such as changing the drive speed and detection). If anybody wants to adopt the bugs in sbpcd and cdu31a, I will have more time to work on CD-R/RW support for ide-cd.
-Erik
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