MC> Can someone please explain me the technical/hystorical reason for such a
MC> thing?
CD writing is defind for scsi (for scsi generic devices, to be exact).
The programs need scsi programming iterface.
So in order to use a scsi cd-writer, you just plug it in. In order to use IDE
(ATAPI) cd-writer, a glue layer is needed to represent ATAPI (which is really
SCSI-packets-over-IDE-bus) as SCSI to the programs. Ide-scsi driver is the glue
layer to make cd-writers accessible.
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