Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:37:55 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: cdrecord hangs my computer |
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> At the moment, I don't have a burner on a 2.6.0 machine, however, why is > ide-scsi depreciated?
Basically IDE-SCSI is a work-around to allow userspace programs that were designed to talk to SCSI devices to use SCSI-like devices connected to an IDE bus.
This works, but obviously it is better to support things natively. IDE CD recorders are probably the most popular SCSI-like IDE device and were therefore quickly supported. Less common hardware, such as some IDE MO drives, continues to require IDE-SCSI for the time being.
> On every PC I have that has an ide cd drive, I use > ide-scsi. I like the fact that scd0 is the cdrom drive. Instead of > guessing if it's hdb hdc or hdd (in the case of this laptop, the dvd was hdb > and the modular cdrw was hdc).
It's easy enough to write something in userspace to identify which devices are which and create devices such as /dev/cdrom automatically - no need to use IDE-SCSI for that.
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