[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Yes, me and a lot of people *need* to reconfigure the kernel. This is
not
difficult, I know.
It seems that only J�rg is seeing my point here. I only was asking why
the ide-scsi thing,
because (again) in windows you just plug the device and it is recognized
by the ASPI (?)
layer. You don't need to reconfigure the kernel. Someone pointed adding
"append hdd=ide-scsi"
in the lilo.conf file: One of the reasons of using Linux is to be able
to work, not forced
to restart the system for the things to work, and when I change some
device, say I connect
some friend's hard disk, then the ide-scsi thing gets in the way, I need
to remove the append
thing, and restart again... and when he leaves, execute lilo again and
restart AGAIN...
so people, so many restarts :(
and not SO easy for novice users.
I'm helping to write a fronted to a CD burning tool, and I want to make
it User Friendly.
As J�rg says, changing the default kernel config will help, but again,
the moving devices appear:
if I disconnect the first CD, the second one will then be scd0 ...
It is not about Linux not being capable, it is about not being so user
friendly. Lazy? no. I just
want to play/work with my box instead of wasting hours configuring it.
Thanks,
--
Manuel Clos,
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