> > 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. > > I don't know how I should treat somebody with an @apache.org e-mail > address saying such huge bullshit.
Check your attribution: David (@apache) asked the question, Rob speculated there might not be IDE support for CDROMS. Michael