Why not another way round? Just make the ide-scsi driver be prefered,
and hack ide-scsi a bit to simulate the cdrom and adv.floppy devices
that are expected as /dev/hd* by some user's configuration?
To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
completely replaced with ide-scsi? I know about only few cdrom devices
that are broken (== not ATAPI compliant) but can be used with
workarounds in the current ide-cd driver. OTOH many users do already
need ide-scsi to access cd recorders and similar hardware, so they would
benefit much more from having ide-scsi as default than few users of
broken "atapi" drives.
Other operating systems did switch to constitent (scsi-based) way of
accessing all kinds of removable media drivers. Why does Linux have to
keep a kludge, written years ago without having a good concept?
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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