Subject: Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and
	give	dev=/dev/hdX as device
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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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

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