>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 17 22:45:28 2000
>Yes, I want this :).
>
>> Well as it seems that there is no co-ordination between different driver groups
>> for the Linux kernel, you now have two SCSI CD-ROM drivers :-(
>>
>> - One sending SCSI commands directly to the SCSI glue layer
>>
>> - One wrapping SCSI commands into ATAPI IDE packets
>>
>> If the driver structure would follow the natural way of device definitions,
>> there would only be one SCSI-CD-ROM driver and you would have no problem
>> to use cdrecord on a standard kernel.
>>
>> A possible solution would be to talk to the driver developers and please them
>> to make the natural way the default Linux configuration.
>Ok, where should I sign?? I know you talked to the scsi team and you
>finally
>got some decent SCSI drivers. Perhaps such a thing can be done for 2.5.
>Can you
>ask them to do so? If they need people asking for the feature I will add
>myself,
>just tell me where!
The problem is not that Linux does not support the right way.
The problem is that Linux default kernel configuration is done in a way
that is not the "natural way".
Instead of using the scsi-CDROM driver, Linux uses the ide-cd driver by
default. This allows people who are using one of the rare very old
nonstandard IDE CD-ROM drives build before 1994 to use Linux without
reconfiguration while the majority of users who like to use CD-writers
are forced to reconfigure the kernel before they mey use the drives.
I believe this problem can only be addressed by Alan Cox or Linus Torwaldsen.
J�rg
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