On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:12:09AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > ---- > >From the linux kernel mailing list: > http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/09/1341236 > > On 6 Nov 2003, bill davidsen wrote: > > > > There is a problem with ide-scsi in 2.6, and rather than fix it someone > > came up with a patch to cdrecord to allow that application to work > > properly, and perhaps "better" in some way. > > Wrong. > > The "somebody" strongly felt that ide-scsi was not just ugly but > _evil_, and that the syntax and usage of "cdrecord" was absolutely > stupid. > > That somebody was me. > > ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed > there was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because > of a broken interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted > to touch SCSI devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't > really worth it. > > The fact that nobody has bothered to fix ide-scsi seems to be a > result of nobody _wanting_ to really fix it. > > So don't use it. Or if you do use it, send the fixes over. > > Linus FWIW windoze uses an ide-scsi emulation for writing CDs... :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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