Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wanted us to know: >> >>meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an >>IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason >>that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? > > In the words of the great Jeff Garzik, "because the cdrecord author > refuses to rewrite the code." That's why other people have been > distributing patches to cdrecord to make it use the packet layer of the > ide devices directly. (I may be mixing terminology, sorry) The new 2.6 > kernel will no longer use an ide-scsi layer.
So that means that the kernel will handle this itself at that point? BTW, do I want /etc/fstab to list the device as "ro" or "rw"? --Dave
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