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

Sergio Monteiro Basto
2005-02-15T20:40:49Z

Well the problem for the common users is the haldeamon doesn't recognize
automatically /dev/scd0 and /etc/fstab don't have any entry about it.

So with hdc=scsi, how I read cds on hdc ?

thanks,

Note: I am using last updates of FC3, after upgrade from FC1.

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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
>
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Sérgio M.B.