Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:13:21 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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On Thu Jul 11, 2002 at 05:27:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this > in detail, but I would again like to consider the following, > especially given the changes in 2.5: > > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE. > It is a source of no ending confusion that a Linux system will not > write CDs to an IDE CD-writer out of the box, for the simple reason > that cdrecord needs access to the generic packet interface, which is > only available in the nonstandard ide-scsi configuration.
cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would work regardless,
-Erik
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