The bottom line in this whole mishmash is that The folks at Adaptec know how to make
the hardware work, and so far, if one is to take in to consideration all the problems
reported with CD-RW in the news groups, Linxu programmers do not know the reverse
engineering
method to make these drives behave.
I have yet to make a coaster using the Adaptec software with my Win98se box and the LG
8024B
drive. It does TAO, and the prep. work to make drag and drop a file at a time from the
explorer.
Why with all the high powered talent in the Linux World the poor dumb end user like me
can
not
do a simple CD burn with out spending months sorting out the VERY LATEST release of
who knows what.
In the short list of why I must have the @$%& MS system is:
Quickbooks
Access 97 ( trying so hard to switch to PostgresQL / Python)
CD writing to backup and distribute my software to end users
AutoCad
USB capture for my Canon Dig. Camera
Thanks for the read to here
John Turner
Free POS software
http://members.intelos.net/~jlt
5/19/01 10:00:06 AM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >- ide cdrom is limited and does not reflect reality
>
>It reflects reality quite nicely - that is one reason it is limited. Oh and
>don't bother quuting wonderous things the drives can do from the ATAPI spec,
>most drives can't.
>
>> >- ide-scsi is _not_ limited but implemented buggy on Linux
>
>ide-scsi as a protocol is very limited. Many CD-ROM drives also dont
>support it.
>
>> >The right solution would be to fix the bugs in the existing ide-scsi + SCSI cdrom
>> >solution. Then even people who do not understand the problem would prefer
>> >this solutuion because it fits all their needs.
>>
>> I haven't said much at all other than that I disagree with you,
>> so please do not put words in my mouth like that.
>>
>People are wlecome to fix the ide-scsi code. They should talk to Jens Axboe
>and Eric Youngdale about it not me. I am all for people fixing bugs in it
>where they exist.
>
>As I understand it the longer term plan for 2.5 is to rip out all the old scsi
>compatibility gunge in the scsi mid layer and move to a more freebsd like set
>up.
>
>Alan
>
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