On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Igor Izyumin wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 03:24 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > There are sometimes issues when using ide-scsi on non-burners. I have > > had some problems, it seems that I can't use supermount on my writer if > > I use ide-scsi on my dvd/cdrom, so I don't think ide-scsi should be the > > default for CDROMs/DVDs when a writer is detected (although we might > > want more opinions on this). > > That would be a very bad thing. CDROMs have to be SCSI [or emulated] for CD > copying programs to work, and few people want to use their CD burner for > reading CDs. >
Could you be more clear on what is bad (that, it etc are very bad words to use as a subject, since they are ambiguous). I was saying: 1)ide-scsi should not be the default for CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives, unless we can test this on every single combination of CD-RW and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, since there are problems that could be more serious than not being able to copy a CD (like not being able to use the writer at all, which is the case if I use ide-scsi on the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and supermount on the CD-RW) 2)It should be easy for a user to use ide-scsi on a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive, so that they can set it that way, and set it back if they have problems. Since Pixel (apparently, I still haven't been able to test) added this to drakconf, this is the current status. Needing to be able to do CD-to-CD copies is normally illegitemate use of a CD-RW drive, and IMHO, legitemate use should take preference (being able to backup data on the hard disk or master CDs, or write ISO images, as opposed to being able to copy a software or audio CD). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
