Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

Alan Cox
2005-02-15T17:23:24Z

On Maw, 2005-02-15 at 02:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> It means: don't use the ide-scsi driver. Support for it is
> lagging (not well-maintained) because it's really not needed for
> burning CDs. Just use the ide-cd driver (module) and
> specify the CD burner device as /dev/hdX.

This information is unfortunately *WRONG*. The base 2.6 ide-cd driver is
vastly inferior to ide-scsi. The ide-scsi layer knows about proper error
reporting, end of media and other things that ide-cd does not.

The -ac ide-cd knows some of the stuff that ide-cd needs to and works
with various drive/disk combinations the base code doesn't but ide-scsi
still handles CD's better.

Alan