Re: ASUS CD-ROM problem reading CD-RW

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16:31, Michal Kosmulski wrote:
>> > I own a 40x ASUS CD-ROM drive CD-S400 (this is an IDE drive but
>> > it runs under ide-scsi).
>>
>> Why do you want to use it with IDE-SCSI?  Why not use it as a
>> native IDE device?
>
>I like k3b and other kde tools dealing with CDs and they require the
> use of ide-scsi at least as far as I know (I tried to use cdrecord
> 2 without ide-scsi with k3b but without success). I use k3b because
> I sometimes use an external usb cd-recorder. However it is
> currently not connected to the system.
>Michal

k3b does indeed allow the use of straight ide access for at least 
kernel 2.6.0-test9-mm2.  I'm running it that way.  Likewise, grip 
seems to be happy as long as /dev/cdrom is a softlink to /dev/hdc.
I'm running both of them that way here.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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