On 08 May 2001 11:04:53 -0700, Rob Pfile wrote: > > David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob Pfile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> [use ide-scsi to use your cdrom for audio ripping] > > > Does anyone have a moment to explay exactly why this makes it work? > > I think the reason is that there is no IDE cdrom driver. there are, > however, lots of scsi drivers in the linux kernel, probably inherited > from other *nixes (BSD?). SCSI has been around for a long time and is > very popular, so that probably explains the wealth of drivers.
I don't know how I should treat somebody with an @apache.org e-mail address saying such huge bullshit. There are IDE cdrom drivers in the kernel, and there are a lot of SCSI drivers mainly because each SCSI adapter/card interfaces in a different way with the system. Although SCSI is popular, Linux hasn't inherited from any other Unices because it doesn't share any common code with any of them (I'm talking about the kernel). > > ['eject' doesnt work] > > i did strace() it but that was before i understood what was going on, > so i'll have to try it again. The output of eject -v would be useful, probably showing a misconfiguration, before resorting to using strace. > On the endianness front and bug-wise, it must be that there's no > uniform way for drivers to report what endianness they return the > audio data in. i cant think of any other reason why cdda2wav would > attempt to analyze the data. i dont know if cdda2wav or audiocd reader > are under active development, but i'll contact the authors. cdda2wav works fine on PPC. I don't know about "audiocd reader". Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
