Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbVBORtG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:49:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261665AbVBORtF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:49:05 -0500 Received: from 90.Red-213-97-199.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.199.90]:50122 "HELO fargo") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261628AbVBORro (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:47:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:48:24 +0100 From: David =?utf-8?B?R8OzbWV6?= To: Alan Cox Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device Message-ID: <20050215174824.GA32536@fargo> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , "Randy.Dunlap" , sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1108426832.5015.4.camel@bastov> <1108434128.5491.8.camel@bastov> <42115DA2.6070500@osdl.org> <1108486952.4618.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1108486952.4618.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 25 Hi Alan, On Feb 15 at 05:02:35, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. Is going to be merged soon to the mainline 2.6 kernel? I guess this bad error handling from ide-cd has something to do with recent messages about kernel hanging with bad dvd media. -- David Gómez Jabber ID: davidge@jabber.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/