From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265177AbTLFOdA (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:33:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265179AbTLFOdA (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:33:00 -0500 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:3456 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265177AbTLFOc7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:32:59 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:37:55 GMT From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200312061437.hB6EbtFs000167@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: Wakko Warner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031206084032.A3438@animx.eu.org> References: <3FD1994C.10607@stinkfoot.org> <20031206084032.A3438@animx.eu.org> Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. John.