Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wanted us to know:
>>
>>meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an
>>IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason
>>that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM?
>
> In the words of the great Jeff Garzik, "because the cdrecord author
> refuses to rewrite the code." That's why other people have been
> distributing patches to cdrecord to make it use the packet layer of the
> ide devices directly. (I may be mixing terminology, sorry) The new 2.6
> kernel will no longer use an ide-scsi layer.
So that means that the kernel will handle this itself at that point?
BTW, do I want /etc/fstab to list the device as "ro" or "rw"?
--Dave
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