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

Lennart Sorensen
2005-02-15T20:29:45Z

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:48:13PM +0100, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> I can confirm that. Creating a correct iso image from a CD is a
> major pain w/o ide-scsi. Depending on what one has done before the iso
> image is missing some data at the end most of the time.
> (paired with lots of kernel error messages)
>
> Testing was done here using Joerg Schilling's sdd:
>
> sdd ivsize=`isosize /dev/cdxxx` if=/dev/cdxxx of=/dev/null \
> bs=<several block sizes from 2048 up tried,does not matter>
>
> and most of the time it results in bad iso images....

I have only ever used his readcd program for doing such things. It has
been so long I can't even remember if it was using ide-scsi or ide-cd.

For burning I use ide-cd with cdrecord and growisofs, and so far it has
worked great. Flashing firmware on the plextor still requires ide-scsi
though.

Lennart Sorensen