>From: Thomas Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I believe it might be more accurate to say that ide-scsi cdrom doesn't
>coexist with ide cdrom very well. It hasn't for some time, at least in
>the development series in my experience. For instance, note below how
>your cdrom and cdrw show up both on the ide scan and the scsi scan.
>I've found two approaches which work. The first is build everything in
>the kernel modular and insert the appropriate drivers depending on whether
>you want to use cdrcord or not. The second approach is to not build any
>support for ide cdrom at all. It requires different symlinks for
So please help me to convinve Alan Cox to have no ide cdrom by default.
ide cdrom is only needed if you have a pre 1993 cdrom drive.
Using it for newer drives breakes several things.
- ide cdrom implements a small SCSI subsystem for no understandable
reason.
- The SCSI code in ide cdrom has other bugs and features then
the scsi cdrom driver because there is no coordination.
- having ide cdrom hides the fact that ide scsi has several bugs
that e.g. prevent PCATA CD ROM drives to work on notebooks.
PCATA CDROMS are treated as IDE hard disk so people don't see the
bug. If there is only ide scsi, then the bug needs to be fixed and
PCATA CD writers will work.
kkkkJ�rg
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