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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:24:32 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and	give	dev=/dev/hdX
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the corrections, Alan.

-- 
~Randy
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