>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
> 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.
Are you kidding?
My software comes in a POSIX standard tar archive. If GNUtar does not follow
POSIX standards, it's not my fault...
GNUmake has some bugs that will cause GNUmake to print a lot of rubbish info
but it will not prevent you from compiling my stuff.
> 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.
You seem to missunderstand things: ATAPI _is_ SCSI over IDE transport.
The IDE SCSI transport has recently be added to the official SCSI transport
interfaces by the SCSI ANSI working group.
> 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.
I yust don't like that the way Linux defaults to is how it might have been
OK > 5 years ago when a significant number of people used nonstandard IDE
CD-ROM drives.
Now all CD-ROM drives are ATAPI which is SCSI over IDE.
The way Linux kernel configuration defaults to just forces most people
to change this default in order to make the kernel working for them.
This is the reason why I suggest to change the Linux kernel default.
J�rg
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