Re: DVD ROM on 2.6

[bill davidsen]

In article <20030820114719.A26833@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Wakko Warner  <wakko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > >I do have DVDs playing now on 2.6.0-test3.  I used ide-cd instead of
| > >ide-scsi.  apparently the scsi layer didn't like it.
| > >Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 7651
| > >Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 7652
| > >Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 7653
| > >end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 660400
| > >
| > >I would get tons of Buffer I/O errors and some end_requests like the above
| > >
| > I thought ide-scsi was broken?
| 
| I can't tell if this is in the ide-scsi driver or the scsi cdrom driver.  I
| still personally wish that the ide drivers were modules of scsi instead of
| being a seperate block device.  USB storage creates scsi adapters, ide-scsi
| allows ATAPI access via scsi.  Why not do this for ide in general (if that
| starts a flame war, please don't contribute =)

Probably because IDE and ATAPI are not the same thing. There are devices
which electrically connect to the IDE bus which don't speak ATAPI.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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