Re: Weird CDRW issue?
On Friday 01 February 2002 10:09 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:04:38 -0800 ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:53 pm, Jeff wrote:
> > > Running Debian Sid.
> > >
> > > When I recompiled to 2.4.16, I put SCSI CDROM emulation in the kernel
> > > and took out IDE CDROM support.. I can mount my drives as /dev/scd0 and
> > > scd1.. However, when trying to use any cd writing programs (the burner
> > > is scd0), they say they cant scan the SCSI bus? No permission or SCSI
> > > emulation not enabled for IDE drives..
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > yeah. here's one. what are you talking about? scsi and ide are not
> > interchangable. they are different technologies. scsi emulation lets you
> > refer to something as if it were, but it's not. how are you going to
> > emulate scsi on an ide device that doesn't exist, as far as the kernel is
> > concerned, without support? what does your /etc/fstab look like? start
> > hoping you haven't fried a drive already.
>
> Ben,
>
> Open Mouth, Insert Foot. Go To Jail, Do Not Collect 200USD.
>
> The original CD-R & CD-RW drives were SCSI. So, the drivers were
> SCSI-oriented. When IDE CD-R|RW drives cam out, an IDE-SCSI inter-
> face layer was written.
hey, i was wrong. you live and learn. hey jeff, i didn't draw blood or
anything, did i?
ben
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