Wrong again greg, failing to set the cdrom up as ide-scsi will prevent utilities from using the read raw p-w subchannel command. This foils index detection and can prevent some drives from reading cd-text informantion and isrc information. Some drives do not support the read-raw p-w subchannel command and will only read the pq subchannel but why take the risk? Also, cdparanoia will work with some drives in ide-scsi emulation that will fail when controlled by the ide/atapi driver. Your milage may vary but I have found that the ide-scsi layer is more affective at digital audio extraction than the ide/atapi driver. Regards, Kerry. On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:29:44AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > You don't need to set up the cdrom as a ide-scsi device. This is only required for the cdrw. > Greg > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:52:16AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I'm a little confused even after reading all the docs so I could use some help > > here. > > I have an ide/atapi cdrom, which I have loaded as scsi because i'm getting ready > > to get a cdrw in addition to the cdrom. Here are my questions: > > 1. Does placement of the cdrw and cdrom matter. The person installing wants to > > put them on separate ides as he says this can make the cdrw slightly faster. > > this means that one of them has to be hdb and the other has to be hdc or hdd (I > > would think hdc). Is it better to put the cdrw as single or primary and let the > > cdrom be the slave on my first ide? > > 2. Does this mean that i set up both the cdrom and the cdrw as scsi? I think I > > read that if you compile both scsi and atap/ide into the kernel the atapi/ide > > will take over which I don't want for the cdrw for sure. > > 3. If both are to be scsi, should my cdrw be scd0 and my cdrom scd1 or does this > > matter? > > 4. What symlinks do I do? Right now I have /dev/cdrom linked to scd0, but is > > this where the cdrw should be linked? Do I make an additional directory and > > mount point so that both can be mounte? > > Thanks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
