Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In other words, because experience and "documentation" tell me to, and > I've found no documentation other than what you and Kirk have said > that indicate that I should be doing otherwise.
>From the Linux configuration documentation about ide-scsi: SCSI emulation support (BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) WARNING: ide-scsi is no longer needed for cd writing applications! The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide-cd, which eliminates the need for ide-scsi + the entire scsi stack just for writing a cd. The new method is more efficient in every way. This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices, and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. ---- >From the linux kernel mailing list: http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/09/1341236 On 6 Nov 2003, bill davidsen wrote: > > There is a problem with ide-scsi in 2.6, and rather than fix it someone > came up with a patch to cdrecord to allow that application to work > properly, and perhaps "better" in some way. Wrong. The "somebody" strongly felt that ide-scsi was not just ugly but _evil_, and that the syntax and usage of "cdrecord" was absolutely stupid. That somebody was me. ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed there was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because of a broken interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted to touch SCSI devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't really worth it. The fact that nobody has bothered to fix ide-scsi seems to be a result of nobody _wanting_ to really fix it. So don't use it. Or if you do use it, send the fixes over. Linus -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
