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Re: Question about cdrdao.



On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:34:04AM -0400, Richard Lemay wrote:
> If you ever tried to make a copy of a cd with cdrdao, you probably 
> already know that your cd must be configured the SCSI way.

That also holds true for cdrecord.

> Well, I don't like my cd to be configured like a SCSI just to use 
> cdrdao. 

Now, why is that?

> Wouldn't anyone have a good idea to allow normal program to use 
> my cd on /dev/hdb like it should be while being able to use cdrdao to 
> read the cd in scsi mode when I need it.

"like it should be"? I don't see any problem with using scsi emulation
all the time.

> I already tried to compile scsi as module and load ide-scsi when I need 
> it but I can't seem to explain the kernel it should "convert" the cd 
> back to IDE mode when I unload ide-scsi... is there something I missed here?

I never use my IDE CD-R in ide mode, what's the gain?

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Hans Ekbrand

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