} Related topic: has anyone ever tried running an ATAPI drive with the
} Linux ide-scsi driver?
I run my Teac 20-speed-max ATAPI CD-ROM drive using the ide-scsi driver.
This allows it to be used with cdparanoia (which, if I recall correctly,
works only with SCSI-interface devices and doesn't understand the Linux
ATAPI CD-ROM ioctls).
It works fine. Back when I first tried it, I wasn't able to get
IDE/ATAPI busmastering to work with the ide-scsi interface - I could
either use the ide-cdrom driver in busmaster mode, or ide-scsi-cdrom
in PIO mode.
Fortunately, this has changed - newer versions of the kernel do
support IDE busmaster transfers in the ide-scsi emulation.
I do prefer SCSI, but for some applications like CD-ROM and cheap, big
hard drives for secondary storage I think a good IDE/ATAPI
implementation does well enough.
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