On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 05:26:39PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> >Hi. What version of the kernel are you using? Just a guess, but 2.6
> >kernels no longer use ide-scsi emulation.
>
> Actually, more precisely, burning direct to IDE CD burners is supported in
> 2.6.X kernels without IDE-SCSI, but you can still use IDE-SCSI if you
> wish. It's just no longer necessary. I guess there are still some
> reasons to keep it around, or they would probably drop it. I recall that
> the documentation for cdparanoia suggests that if you have trouble getting
> your CDROM drive to extract audio, try it with IDE-SCSI emulation. Of
> course, that program was written way before 2.6 kernels, so maybe that's
> no longer true either.
>
The ide-scsi module isn't beeing maintained in 2.6 kernels. The way I
understand it is if it works for you good, but users should move
away from using it.
Kenny
