>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
>> 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.
> Without ide cdrom support the kernel must add support for an entire
>SCSI subsystem, which is totally not needed on most systems. I can't see
>making this a standard, most systems just don't need it.
Well most systems now include CD-writers and you need a SCSI subsystem
to make them work.
> And after running a few tests on a 2.4.3 system with ide cdrom,
>ide-scsi, ide floppy, and SCSI cdrom and tape, I was unable to generate
>a failure mode even when doing things like burning from ZIP or ide cdrom
>as a source. Even going from ide cdrom or ide scsi cdrom to either scsi
>or ide-scsi cd writer (yes this is a very loaded system) worked, as did
>writing a iso image to tape and buring from that (speed=2, 16MB fifo) to
>ide-scsi.
Did you ever try to write a CD on a Sony VAIO with a CDwriter connected
to the PCcard slot?
J�rg
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