>From: Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>sfgd> What you see is a result of a design flaw in the Linux kernel:
>sfgd> A "natural" implementation would look like this:
>sfgd> - one or more SCSI parallel Host adapter drivers
>sfgd> - one oe more SCSI serial Host adapter drivers (e.g. ieee 1034 ??? Fire
>wire)
>sfgd> - one or more IDE packet SCSI hostadapter drivers
>sfgd> All working with a single SCSI glue library to:
>sfgd> - CD-ROM driver
>sfgd> - Tape driver
>sfgd> ...
>AFAIK this is how Linux works. There are host adapters - real adapters,
>ide-scsi virtual adapter, usb/i2o/parallel adapters (don't know whether IEEE
>1394 scsi exists already). And then there are general high-level drivers liks
>scsi disks, scsi cdroms, scsi tapes etc. The same scsi cdrom driver is used
>for "real" scsi cdroms and ide cdrom (in case the ide interface uses ide-scsi
>virtual host adapter). I see no problem with Linux. I think you are seeing
>hallucinations (sp?) here.
Linux _may be_ configured to work this way. It is not by default.
This is the main problem for the majority of users of CD-writers today.
J�rg
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