On Mar 14, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Craig White wrote:
>>
>> Here is another idea. If you have an ATAPI burner and your version is
>> using ide-scsi, upgrade to where you can use a straight ide module to
>> read and write. Here is why. Although is is certainly possible to get
>> ide-scsi working it is not possible to do so in a way that is
>> portable,
>> consistent with the way that other modules work, does not involve
>> counterintuitive interactions with the boot loader and is free from
>> disturbing side effects. You don't want to waste valuable mental
>> capacity on learning the details of an approach that the developers
>> have abandoned as an ugly kludge, especially in light of the fact that
>> current versions of most distributions just work.
> ----
> this is the reason why I was keeping my mouth shut here...I don't even
> know the new magic, it just seems to work.
>
> Best to leave to one of the SuSE people that propound the theory that
> SuSE works better with various hardware and might have a clue what it
> is
> that he is talking about (instructions for SuSE 8.2) - hopefully, they
> won't remain silent for too long.
I had to get CD writing working on Red Hat 7.0 awhile ago and the
approach that finally worked was to stop trying to understand it and
just google for someone who had a similar problem on the same system.
Even then I got writing working at the cost of introducing a bug into
reading where sometimes a disk wont unmount. After I solved my
immediate problem I went back to try to understand *why* I had to do
what I did and that's when I learned about the abandoned path that
development took with respect to burning.
The great thing about the direction that Linux is following now is that
we can have a generalized understanding of block devices.
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