In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Manuel Clos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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!
Do understand that Joerg has yet to say a single good thing about
Linux since they decided to write their software their way instead of
his way. Also note that when it was suggested that portability of
cdrecord would be better if it didn't use its own tar, make, require
installing that make in /usr/bin, etc, he suggested that it was his
software and he'd do it his way.
I fail to see your problem, every controller has its own bus, and the
ide-scsi behaves as a controller. You can assing a single ATAPI CD
easily to ide-scsi and leave any other ATAPI CD devices on the ide bus.
So that's a non-problem other than if you tell the o/s to do something
else it will do as told.
There is no generic scsi driver for ATAPI because it's not SCSI.
There's no need for it, but if you want to write one feel free.
On systems where I have a burner I specify the drive with an append
line in lilo.conf, "hdd=ide-scsi" which causes the ATAPI driver to
ignore the device and let it be SCSI. You can do that with media drives
like ZIP as well, to use SCSI instead of ide-floppy, but I haven't seen
any reason to do so.
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-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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