Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-20 Thread csj
On 19. December 2003 at 8:21AM -0500, Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-20 Thread Anssi Saari
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:15:31PM +0200, Thanos Kyritsis wrote: So, what if the .bin is in 2352 byte sectors format ? My question exactly. And right now, the answer is use cdrdao and ide-scsi. Maybe at some point cdrecord will add support for that or cdrdao will be updated. -- To

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-20 Thread csj
On 19. December 2003 at 8:21AM -0500, Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-20 Thread Anssi Saari
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:15:31PM +0200, Thanos Kyritsis wrote: So, what if the .bin is in 2352 byte sectors format ? My question exactly. And right now, the answer is use cdrdao and ide-scsi. Maybe at some point cdrecord will add support for that or cdrdao will be updated.

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-19 Thread Thanos Kyritsis
On Friday 19 December 2003 15:21, Rob Bogus wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-19 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Andy Polyakov wrote: [ A long and interesting answer ... ] Thank you very much, Andy ! To summarize : using a stock kernel allows the use of /dev/hdx with dvd+rw-tools. Patching the kernel allows for true direct access to dvd+r(w) discs, but needs ide-scsi on 2.4.x kernels (the stock 2.6.0

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-19 Thread Andy Polyakov
To summarize : using a stock kernel allows the use of /dev/hdx with dvd+rw-tools. Patching the kernel allows for true direct access to dvd+r(w) discs, but needs ide-scsi on 2.4.x kernels (the stock 2.6.0 kernel already has the relevant patch). Three questions : 1) Is the above summary

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Bogus
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and that there exists very few enthousiasm to fix it. 1 - no,

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-19 Thread Thanos Kyritsis
On Friday 19 December 2003 15:21, Rob Bogus wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and

Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and that there exists very few enthousiasm to fix it. A bit of further research showed that

Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and that there exists very few enthousiasm to fix it. A bit of further research showed that

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Andy Polyakov
A bit of further research showed that the recent incarnations of cdrecord and cdrecord-Prodvd can use plain old /dev/hdx IDE device interface. I also understand that this feature can also be used on 2.4.x). However, the manual for dvd+rw-tools (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) still