On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > > 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.
Far from true. Many new PCs come with *only* a CD burner, and many buyers of such PCs never use those to burn a CD. My wife has a PC with a reader and a writer (an old, 4X one of mine) and she only ever uses it to read CDs, she thinks it's great just being able to have two CDs mounted at the same time. I occasionaly use it to back up some of her stuff, never to copy CDs. Even on my own PC, I usually copy to ISO on the hard drive first, it makes it much faster to retry when the first attempt fails, which happens less often with this technique anyway. > 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. It seems as though, if it were desired to make this easier for people, a good way to do it would be to simply add an additional boot option that appends the right module in the correct manner, so that people didn't have to muck with lilo.conf or the boot command line or whatever. --Bob Drzyzgula
