Fwd: Re: disabling ide-scsi
sorry, forgot to send this to the list.
-jason pepas
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Subject: Re: disabling ide-scsi
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:32:57 -0500
From: Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
> > Why? ide-scsi is an almost perfect replacement for ide-cd driver. What is
> > the reason for wanting to get rid of it?
>
> Because if you have a dvd rom drive, then mplayer will not work if ide-scsi
> is loaded.
actually, mplayer does work for me, but my machine is a celeron 566, which
makes it just barely fast enough to play dvd's without dropping frames.
however, ide-scsi creates enough cpu overhead to start dropping frames.
I just can't understand why the developers made this choice. It was set up
such that you had to explicitly specify which drives to perform scsi
emulation on, and it would leave the rest alone. Now it just grabs up all of
them, and leaves you no option to disable them individually. The way they
had it was the appropriate solution, and this seems like a regression.
-jason pepas
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