>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 21:39:23 2001
>> on UNIX and I _did_ use ST506 drives from 1985 to 1993. But ST506 drives make no
>> sense since 1994.
>There are still people using them too - and ESDI
Sounds irrational. I bought a new 3.5" SCSI HD for the amount of money
I had to pay for 4 ESDI disks I was running 4 years ago.
>> >I stil don't see what the argument is about. Its up to you whether you want to
>> >use ide-cd or ide-scsi
>>
>> If the SCSI cdrom driver would support all special functions correctly, all users
>> of Linux would definitely prefer the ide-scsi solution as it allows to use
>> CD-writers without a reconfiguration. In addition, digital audio extraction
>> may be used this way too...
>I think your real argument should be 'why can't I open a drive as scsi just
>because ide-cd is loaded'. Thats something we agree upon. If both modules are
>loaded I should be able to open it either way
The argument is why should 99.9& of the Linux users use ide-cdrom when there is no
reason not to include SCSI in the kernel and when (if sr.c has been fixed)
no user has disadvantages from this decision. Currently all users of ATAPI
cd writers suffer from the Linux default to use ide-cdrom. This is definitely
a lot more poeple than those who still user 1993 non ATAPI IDE cd-roms.
J�rg
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