Re: cdrecord hangs my computer

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> At the moment, I don't have a burner on a 2.6.0 machine, however, why is
> ide-scsi depreciated?

Several reasons.

One is just plain confusion - anybody who uses cdrecord has either been
confused by the silly SCSI numbering (while "dev=/dev/hdc" is not
confusing at all, and uses the same device you use for mounting the thing
etc).

Another is that several things did _not_ work well with ide-scsi. Some
people ended up having to boot with ide-scsi enabled to burn CD's, but
then if they wanted to watch DVD's (on the same drive), they needed to
boot without it.

>		 On every PC I have that has an ide cd drive, I use
> ide-scsi.  I like the fact that scd0 is the cdrom drive.

And you liked the fact that you were supposed to write "dev=0,0,0" or
something strange like that? What a piece of crap it was.

		Linus
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