Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Which is also needed if you want to use ziptools, so that's not a problem at
can you tell more? what does it give more?
> all, but more a plus. Maybe you guys should start compiling the kernels
> *WITHOUT* IDE cdrom and IDE floppy support and let ide-scsi handle it all.
> If you wnat to burn a CD you need ide-scsi support anyways and if you want
> to make full use of your ATAPI ZIP drive you'll also need it. Or are there
> any problems that I missed that would speak against dropping IDE CD/floppy
> support and just using ide-scsi for everything?
well:
- backward compatibility
- naming: your zip ends up as sda or sdb-something, just like scsi, the order
depending upon the module insmod'ing order :-(
(this will be better with devfs)
- and maybe others, like speed, but i don't know about that...
