On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Well ide-scsi + the SCSI cdrom driver does not work for me with a PCATA
>> CD-writer - not even for reading.
>
>So report it to the maintainer
>
>> You are talking about pre 1993 drives. Do you know anybody who is still
>> using a 1x or 2x CD-ROM drive from these days?
>
>Me for one
I've also got one. My 1993 2x drive and my 1994 4x drive are
still running in great shape as good as they did brand new. The
crap they have put out in the last 5 to 6 years is designed to
last 6 months so you have to replace it. I'd rather not play
that game. We all know that a 52 speed CDROM is not really 52
speed by any far stretch of the imagination after all... If the
newer drives came with a set of earplugs I'd consider upgrading
from a 4x to an 8x perhaps... ;o) A 40x drive is really more
like 12x from my measurements...
The point to Jeorg being that there is no reason for me (or you
Alan) to upgrade a perfectly good working drive that we are happy
with and which works fine today.
>> OK, I'll try it but I thought that you as the integrative person may/should
>> issue some pressure to the developers to help Linux to evolve into a direction
>> that makes it easier to use for most people.
>
>I really dont follow that part of your argument at all.
No kidding.. Jeorg, Linux isn't a company ran OS that Alan or
someone can say "hey you - you must code this". It is "you have
an idea you think is good, well then by all means show me the
code, and we'll talk" OS. So Jeorg, where is that code?
Since you "know" all of the "problems" with this stuff in Linux
so well, with your level of talent in the field of SCSI, I would
think that you could design something between breakfast and
lunch, and implement it before dinner.
One would also think then that there would be no more problems in
the Linux SCSI subsystem with which you would continue to
incessantly attack Linux for.
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