Hi Alan, On Feb 15 at 05:02:35, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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.
Is going to be merged soon to the mainline 2.6 kernel? I guess this bad error handling from ide-cd has something to do with recent messages about kernel hanging with bad dvd media. -- David GÃmez Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/