* Fred Miller
Wrong.
ide-scsi is broken yes, but cdrecord now works in 2.6 with
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdX ....
So there's simply no need for ide-scsi. It's one of the biggest FAQ items wrt. the 2.6 kernel, and people are going to get this wrong over and over and over and over again..
There's another bug in the 9.0 cdrecord, that has nothing to do with the above, but with resmgr. Updates are on it's way.
Mads, SUPPOSEDLY the SCSI emmulation for IDE provides for faster use of the CD-RW drive - better than with IDE access. What is the real story?
Well, that's the other way around actually.
This is a FAQ item -- excerpt from Dave Jones' post Halloween document
about the 2.6 kernel at
http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt:
- Jens Axboe added the ability to use DMA for writing CDs on
ATAPI devices. Writing CDs should be much faster than it
was in 2.4, and also less prone to buffer underruns and the like.
- With a recent cdrecord, you also no longer need ide-scsi in order to
use an IDE CD writer.
- Ripping audio tracks off of CDs now also uses DMA and should be
notably faster. You can also find an updated cdda2wav at:
*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/tools/
- Send good/bad reports of audio extraction with cdda2wav and burning
with the cdrecord to Jens Axboe