Re: 2.6.0-test9 breaks cdrecord w. ide-scsi device

From: P. Christeas
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 10:36:55 EST


> Hello
>
> I don't really know what the problem with ide-scsi is (I'm not much of a
> programmer) but is there any particular reason you're clinging to the old
> ide-scsi method for CD writing? This has been broken a few times now in the
> 2.5/2.6 tree. Even when it is working, it's still somewhat broken and they
> know it. I have found that the maximum speed I can get is 16x using
> ide-scsi in the 2.6 tree.
>
> There is now ide-cd writing support, and cdrecord 2 supports it. I build
> that stuff modular, so I just load the ide-cd and isofs modules (modprobe
> takes care of the rest). I achieve the fastest writing speeds I've ever
> had, using this driver. Far better than ide-scsi or even Sleazy CD Creator
> in Windows.
>
> In the cdrecord command, everything is the same except you use
> dev=/dev/hdxx instead of the dev=x,x,x scsi target notation. For example:
>
> cdrecord -v speed=48 dev=/dev/hdd -data filename.iso
>
> Just in case you didn't know this or have never tried this. I hope it helps
> you.
>
It's true that I hadn't tried the native ATAPI method lately.
My point, however, was that there is a regression from -test8 to -test9 about
cdrecord-ing.

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