[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> > What more than read do you need for a CD-ROM? My drives all have a
> >> >convenient button to eject media, which is handy because I use my hand
> >> >to pick up the CD and my finger is right there. As I found out once, by
> >> >using software eject you can stick the tray right out where someone can
> >> >bang into it.
> >>
> >> Open/close tray, lock tray, read audio, read toc, change error recovery parameters
> >> and a lot more.
>
> > You know, my music sounds fine, I guess I just can't hear them. In
> >case you missed the point, data CDs and playing music work fine on IDE
> >without all the stuff you consider important.
>
> WRONG: ... or must I send you a ide-cdrom driver where I removed the ability
> to send SCSI commands to the CD-ROM drive to proove that you ar wrong?
>
> Fact is you NEED SCSI commands to do it and ide-cdrom does it in a non Linux way
> so cdrecord cannot use it.
Given that my drive makes no claim to being ATAPI, and that I added
another drive because one of the ripping programs told me it also lacked
CDDA capability, somehow I really doubt that I would miss SCSI. But I
don't claim that most people have old CDs, only that they don't burn
them, and that the vast majority of people using Linux don't have a
problem now.
Since you admit (claim loudly) that ide-scsi doesn't work right, how
can you hope to have fewer problems making it the standard? Happily, I
can't think that such a major change would be made in a stable kernel
series, so the changes will wait until 2.6, and will be what the
developers want.
The steps are (a) first implement the new IDE and SCSI layers, then
(b) debug them until they work as well as or better than what we have,
and only then (c) decide if there is any reason to change the default.
--
-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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