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Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning!



On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:59:10AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Pigeon writes:
> > The woody version of cdrecord is too old to play nicely with 2.6
> > kernels. You need a 2.x version from backports.org.
> >
> > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable cdrtools cdrdao
> >
> > Even that isn't guaranteed to work. With my CD-RW (CyberDrive CW088D)
> > and kernel 2.6.6, cdrecord causes a flood of drive errors and
> > sometimes locks the system up, no matter whether I use ide-cd or
> > ide-scsi. Fortunately, cdrdao does work.
> >
> > There has been a poisonous ding-dong between Joerg Schilling and the
> > Linux kernel developers for years - the bitching about the driver in
> > the Readme file is only a wee bit of it - and the flaky CD burning
> > under 2.6 seems to be a result of this. Which is dead and chewed.
> 
> 	Maybe I am simply lucky this time, but I am not having one bit
> of trouble burning CD's with the two drives I have in 2.6.5 and SCSI
> emulation so you have probably saved me time if nothing else.

It seems to be highly dependent on the drive. Google found me about
three people with the same drive as me and the same problem, and a few
with a CyberDrive CW058D (I think) who were OK.

> 	I had been wondering if there was any CD controller program
> that would run the drives in CD playing mode so that one can listen
> through the headphone jack and audio electronics in the drive.  I had
> an ancient application called cdcontrol or something like that which
> never worked with anything I previously had, but it also needed the
> non-SCSI device such as /dev/hdc or maybe even it was /dev/cdrom.  I
> seem to recall that the only thing it successfully did was open and
> close the tray and print the calendar display for the CD, but it
> wouldn't turn on the audio D/A and play a disk.
> 
> 	It's a minor issue, but it seems like a waste to see those
> little volume thumb wheels and jacks on the front of the drives and not
> be able to make them do something.

I just use the play button on the front of the drive :-) It looks like
cdtool may be the package you want:

Package: cdtool
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 160
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.1.5-4.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Filename: pool/main/c/cdtool/cdtool_2.1.5-4.1_i386.deb
Size: 36714
MD5sum: 69ec3836d0d8607f9831b2f0b85462c5
Description: some text-based commands for managing a CD
 cdtool contains cdplay, cdeject, cdstop, cdpause, and several other
 utilities that let you control your CD-ROM drive from a command
 line. Also, it comes with cdir, a utility that uses a workman-style
 database to keep track of the contents of different CDs. It now
 includes a commandline utility for controlling a CD-ROM called cdctrl.

It would be my suspicion that any application such as this would be
trying to access the CD-ROM drive in IDE/ATAPI mode, as nobody uses
ide-scsi if they don't absolutely have to :-) If you have cdrom, ide-cd,
ide-scsi, sr_mod and sg as modules, and your CD-ROM hasn't thrown up
any weird errors, it SHOULD be possible to switch between IDE/ATAPI
and ide-scsi modes by rmmoding all the modules for one mode and then
modprobeing those for the other mode. Note the SHOULD :-) You could
write wrapper scripts for cdrecord etc. to automate the changeover.

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