Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nicholas Knight <> | Subject | Re: Burning a CD image slow down my connection | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:40:18 -0700 |
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On Tuesday 25 September 2001 03:21 am, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > On 25 Sep 2001, [A]ndy80 wrote: > > I've my Plextor Writer as secondary master seen as a scsi device > > and if I try do use hdparm it says: > > > > [root@piccoli shady]# hdparm -t /dev/cdrom > > /dev/cdrom not supported by hdparm > > Hmm, /dev/cdrom would typically be a link. You might try to apply > hdparm to where the link points to, but I cannot really believe > hdparm doesn't follow links. > > Normally /dev/cdrom should point to /dev/hdc in your case. I somewhat > suspect that it points to /dev/scd0. If so, can you actually > mount the cdrom? The ide2scsi device emulation basically just passes > scsi commands as atapi commands over the ide bus (since atapi just > use the scsi commands but tunnel them over ide). I'm surprised this > also works for cdroms. I wasn't aware of the fact they are ATAPI and > thus support the scsi command set. Maybe the cdwriters are special in > that context.
My DVD-ROM drive and Plextor PlexWriter CD-RW drive both function under the idescsi emulation driver. *All* current IDE CD writers are ATAPI and REQUIRE idescsi (or in windows, an ASPI layer) in order to be used as a cd writer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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