Re: ATAPI burner and IDE SCSI emulation

[Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>]

I believe this has more to do with how the author of cdrecord chose to 
implement it rather than the kernel.  Why don't you speak to him?

-b

Andreas Franck wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> after having "upgraded" (?) my distro from my wonderfully hand-configured 
> Debian system (which I unfortunately wrecked up lately) to S*SE 7.1, I'm now 
> really displeasured about the IDE-SCSI emulation thing for my ATAPI CD 
> roaster. Not that I was not able to set it up correctly, but being a bit 
> fastidious and used to be able to configure almost everything I wanted, 
> including what drivers I wanted to load, by choosing modules I was deeply 
> disappointed about the sof the IDE SCSI emulation driver, which seems really 
> baroque. 
> 
> For the unknowing, here are the general "newbie" steps nneded to make a 
> simple ATAPI CD roaster roast at all: Compile the kernel with IDE-SCSI 
> support enabled (or as a module), then you have to pass a mysterious 
> "hdx=ide-scsi" on the kernel commandline (through LILO or whatsoever), then 
> the "normal" IDE driver refuses to take any control over your CD burner. This 
> makes it possible for the IDE SCSI driver to take this job.
> 
> To actually USE my burner, it even gets more complicated (... I always speak 
> for the "Joe Blow" user, I have gone through all this and succeeded 
> finally...) - I have not only to load the SCSI CD-ROM driver to be able to 
> read any CDs with the burner, reset the /dev/cdrom (or /dev/cdburner) link 
> accordingly, but I also need this mysterious generic SCSI module loaded...
> 
> People, my say this is the biggest mess of configuration for me since I last 
> built up my first WNOS TCP/IP system, which was 7 years ago. And this is my 
> mission:
> 
> Clean this mess up. Make CD roasting work fine without this SCSI crap (sorry, 
> no offense intended, but from the "user perspective" its friendliness goes 
> far to -ininity...)
> 
> I'd appreciate any comments, am willing to take big slaps on my head from any 
> major wood part, and would like to know if anything/anyone is already working 
> towards this, or is doing any other tasks in this area.
> 
> Im particular I'd better look at the packet writing stuff (who's involved? 
> Jens Axboe?) before I start anything too big :) Again, any comments or 
> pointers to other projects are welcome, I can't wait to be able to toast CDs 
> on my machine without going through this nightmare again :-)
> 
> Greetings (and: please don't take anything personal or too serious, it's just 
> me being frustrated after having set up my system and nothing working 
> again...)
> 
> Andreas
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