Off topic: can't burn audio disks anymore.

[Kenny Hitt]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 05:26:39PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 
> >Hi.  What version of the kernel are you using?  Just a guess, but 2.6
> >kernels no longer use ide-scsi emulation.
> 
> Actually, more precisely, burning direct to IDE CD burners is supported in 
> 2.6.X kernels without IDE-SCSI, but you can still use IDE-SCSI if you 
> wish.  It's just no longer necessary.  I guess there are still some 
> reasons to keep it around, or they would probably drop it.  I recall that 
> the documentation for cdparanoia suggests that if you have trouble getting 
> your CDROM drive to extract audio, try it with IDE-SCSI emulation.  Of 
> course, that program was written way before 2.6 kernels, so maybe that's 
> no longer true either.
> 
The ide-scsi module isn't beeing maintained in 2.6 kernels.  The way I
understand it is if it works for you good, but users should move
away from using it.

          Kenny