From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261809AbVBORXY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:23:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261804AbVBORGj (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:06:39 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48000 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261796AbVBORET (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:04:19 -0500 Subject: Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device From: Alan Cox To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <42115DA2.6070500@osdl.org> References: <1108426832.5015.4.camel@bastov> <1108434128.5491.8.camel@bastov> <42115DA2.6070500@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1108486952.4618.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:02:35 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2005-02-15 at 02:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > It means: don't use the ide-scsi driver. Support for it is > lagging (not well-maintained) because it's really not needed for > burning CDs. Just use the ide-cd driver (module) and > specify the CD burner device as /dev/hdX. This information is unfortunately *WRONG*. The base 2.6 ide-cd driver is vastly inferior to ide-scsi. The ide-scsi layer knows about proper error reporting, end of media and other things that ide-cd does not. The -ac ide-cd knows some of the stuff that ide-cd needs to and works with various drive/disk combinations the base code doesn't but ide-scsi still handles CD's better. Alan