At 03:20 PM 10/23/02 -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
The underlying ide device (/dev/hd*) remains accessable to hdparm (NOT "hdparam"). You change the DMA setting on the "real" IDE device, not the emulated SCSI device. (I'm assuming here that the drive really is an IDE drive, and you are using the kernel's ide-scsi driver to "turn it into" a scsi device for cdrecord or cdrdao or whatever you use to burn. Details matter in troubleshooting discussions.)The CD-ROM in question is a CD-RW. The system set it up as /dev/scd0 which is not accessible from hdparam. if I turn it into an ide device, I will no longer be able to write CDs with it.
Believe it. Or take it up with the folks who write the CD burning programs (at least the two I named above, anyway).Does anyone know a way around this? I can't hardly believe that all the millions of Linux users have been, and still are, stuck with CD-RWs that have to masquerade as SCSI devices.
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