>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 22 20:28:52 2001
>I should mention that Linux Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 both detected
>my HP CD-Writer 8100 during installation, (as well as my IDE Zip
>drive) and correctly installed the necessary modules for
>ide-scsi, sg, and the rest. The kernel config was correctly
>set up with:
>"hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
>and as a result "cdrecord --scanbus" identified the drive with
>an out-of-the box Linux Mandrake install. I can burn CD's just
>fine, all it took was a quick read of the cdrecord man page.
>So what's the problem? The only time I had to read the
>documentation about ide-scsi is when I compiled my own kernel.
The problem is that because of this method the developers do not
find out that there are bugs in their code.
Note: I cannot use my CD-writer on my Sony Vaio notebook.
It is connected via PC-Card interface and something like
"hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy" will not work because of driver bugs.
If ide-scsi was the default, then no PC-card drive would work at
all until the bug has been fixed.
J�rg
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