On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> I have an ATAPI Ricoh CDRW. In order to get it to work under M6.0
> (unless you know something I don't) for the purposes of burning CDR's
> and CDRW's, I had to recompile the Kernel, turn off support for ATAPI
> CDROMs and turn on support for ide-scsi SCSI emulation for ATAPI CDROM
> drives.
>
> Is there any reason why we can't ship a kernel configuration with this
> as default? Are there any problems associated with making all ATAPI
> CDROMs emulate SCSI? What do you lose by using ide-scsi?
We do ship with ide-scsi, it's a module.. append="hdX=ide-scsi" in lilo
and modprobe ide-scsi.
Yes there are problems with flakey cdroms, the "Creative(tm) infra1800"
for example thinks it's a jukebox when loaded under ide-scsi.
Access to the device via /dev/hdX, and gain some overhead because of the
actual emulation.
> Alternatively, could the default Cooker kernels come compiled in with
> modular support for ide-scsi? Supposedly there is a lilo directive for
> telling the kernel to use ide-scsi for specific CDROM drives.
There should be detailed instructions either on or linked in the FAQ, but
i forgot the url
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