>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 22:15:14 2001
>> That was not what I sayd. Because of the existence of the ide-cdrom driver
>> nobody cares about the bugs in the layering
>> PC-CARD -> IDE -> IDE-SCSI -> SCSI generic ot any other high level driver
>Take a look at the code. ide_cs is a standard plug in IDE driver. It does
>nothing to violate any layering. So if its not handling cd burning its a
>driver bug, not a conceptual bug
I have to exchange mail with the apropriate maintainer....
>> Does >Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for IDE in general
>> includes IDE over PC-CARD and DMA over PC-CARD?
>Linux does not support DMA over PCMCIA only over CardBus.
PC-CARD is supporting DMA while PCMCIA is the old standard.
If I switch the Sony CD-Writer to be Cardbus compatible, it does not
work at all on Linux.
>ide-cs was done by David Hinds. It probably isnt directly relevant to any
>problems as it does the following
> Scan the PCMCIA descriptors
> Allocate an IDE device object
> Set the right IRQ, ports etc
> Enable the IRQ line
> Attach it as a generic random IDE pio device
>I've not tested this driver with ide-scsi as my only pcmcia ide device is a
>hard disk. Cardbus IDE is handled as with any other PCI IDE device.
I need to talk to the right person... I get problems that lead to bad
pointers somewhere.
J�rg
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