David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Pfile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [use ide-scsi to use your cdrom for audio ripping] > Does anyone have a moment to explay exactly why this makes it work? I think the reason is that there is no IDE cdrom driver. there are, however, lots of scsi drivers in the linux kernel, probably inherited from other *nixes (BSD?). SCSI has been around for a long time and is very popular, so that probably explains the wealth of drivers. > ['eject' doesnt work] i did strace() it but that was before i understood what was going on, so i'll have to try it again. On the endianness front and bug-wise, it must be that there's no uniform way for drivers to report what endianness they return the audio data in. i cant think of any other reason why cdda2wav would attempt to analyze the data. i dont know if cdda2wav or audiocd reader are under active development, but i'll contact the authors. rob