Messages in this thread | | | From | Torrey Hoffman <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH,RFC] make ide-scsi more selective | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:37:23 -0700 |
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> Here's an end-user perspective for you... I just spent 2 days > trying to > figure out how to use my CD-RW drive to read when using > ide-scsi, before > I finnaly realized that I had to do it by disabling ATAPI CD > support and > enabling SCSI CD support..
Also note:
The SCSI-CD driver is also required if you want any kind of reasonable performance for cdparanoia (the music CD ripper), even for perfectly ordinary CD or DVD drives. This took me a couple tries last weekend, and I even knew what the problem was.
Is there _any_ hardware where the ide-cd driver works better than ide-scsi emulation?
If not, I suppose the only reason to keep it around is so people don't need to compile all the SCSI support just for ordinary access to ISO-9660 cds with an IDE CDROM.
In the meantime, perhaps the kernel configuration help could mention this little gotcha? And maybe distributions should make ide-scsi the default? At least CD ripping would work "out of the box" like that.
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