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From: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH,RFC] make ide-scsi more selective
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:37:23 -0700
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> Here's an end-user perspective for you... I just spent 2 days 
> trying to 
> figure out how to use my CD-RW drive to read when using 
> ide-scsi, before 
> I finnaly realized that I had to do it by disabling ATAPI CD 
> support and 
> enabling SCSI CD support..

Also note:

The SCSI-CD driver is also required if you want any kind of
reasonable performance for cdparanoia (the music CD ripper),
even for perfectly ordinary CD or DVD drives.  This took me
a couple tries last weekend, and I even knew what the problem
was.

Is there _any_ hardware where the ide-cd driver works better
than ide-scsi emulation?

If not, I suppose the only reason to keep it around is so 
people don't need to compile all the SCSI support just for 
ordinary access to ISO-9660 cds with an IDE CDROM.

In the meantime, perhaps the kernel configuration help could 
mention this little gotcha?  And maybe distributions should 
make ide-scsi the default?  At least CD ripping would work 
"out of the box" like that.

Torrey Hoffman
torrey.hoffman@myrio.com