On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:42:37AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > Did Linus say that ide-scsi was an outdated and no longer needed > "patch" ? Its pretty much unrequired except for special devices, and it seems your specific personal CD ROM > Did the development team concur ? Have they acted on it ? Should > ide/atapi cdrom access allow users to have full use (ripping, burning, > reading) of their CDROM ? Yes - in 2.6 the SG_IO interface means you can do burning and the like directly on /dev/cdrom and it removed all the hell there used to be about which sg device is my cdrom and cleaned up many other things. > So... is xcdroast wrong ? K3b seems to work OK without it, bug grip > (cdparanoia) seems to have issues. xcdroast is wrong (mostly just out of date on the 2.6 change) > Nov 11 10:28:40 localhost kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > Nov 11 10:28:40 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x58 > { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > Nov 11 10:28:40 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: error=0x00 > Nov 11 10:28:40 localhost kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command Your CD drive went off into hyperspace > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: No active request in > idescsi_eh_reset > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready > after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 We eventually decided to declare it dead > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = > 0x2 > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline > device And that below is a bug > Nov 11 10:28:49 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual address 00000008 which shouldnt have occurred but was triggered by what appears to be broken hardware