On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 11:37:01AM -0400, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> The Polaroid is atapi, hdc to be exact.  Wouldn't it be nice if cdrecord 
> would just accept dev=hdc instead of those silly numeric parameters?   I did 

Actually, it does.  To answer the next logical questions, I'm running
kernel 2.6, so I don't need to do the ide-scsi stuff, and version
"Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27" of cdrecord on Gentoo.

> google on this - an easier problem to describe - and found a few suggestions, 
> which I tried that didn't work.  Yes, the ide-scsi module is loaded.  Yes, 
> the DMA is turned off for hdc.

Okay, ide-scsi is loaded.  But do you see something like "hdc=ide-scsi"
in /proc/cmdline?  Do you access the drive when reading as hdc or
sda/sg0/scd0/something-else-along-these-lines?

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