> > According to a conversation I had with another helper on this list, > > there is an experimental IDE CR driver that does away with the scsi > > emulation. I was under the impression that this was the only way to > > turn on the dma setting. > > Then i stand corrected, as i know nothing of such a driver, it could be that > such a driver is being developed into 2.5 kernels, however those kernels are > not things to use on normal systems as they are what they are, "experimental". > > Perhaps the "other helper" on this list would like to tell us where to find > information on this driver.
I believe I am "the other helper" :-) Yes, you are right, 2.5 contains changes that will eventually allow cd recording without using SCSI emulation: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cdrecord+%22torvalds%40transmeta.com%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&selm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0210161437010.1108-100000%40penguin.transmeta.com.lucky.linux.kernel&rnum=3 By the way, I'm not sure what enabling/disabling DMA has to do with reading a faulty CD-ROM. It's not like you're enabling/disabling UDMA, which has error correction to detect errors on the _bus_. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs
