ide_scsi module on FC2

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

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From: "Dima Gutzeit" <dima at mailvision.net>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: ide_scsi module on FC2


> Thank you very much for such detailed answer. I'll do that.
>
> P.S. - Why is it disabled ? Does it offend some other module or something
?

ide-scsi was an ugly, ugly, ugly hack to provide access to the SCSI command
set for IDE devices. Almost all modern CD authoring tools, which
particularly needed SCSI for the reasons above, now can handle the direct
IDE drivers. This includes cdrecord and all the tools based on cdrecord,
which is almost all of them including xine, xcdroast, and the various
popular Linux DVD burning tools.

ide-scsi is preserved for software drivers that insist on using SCSI for
such device manipulations, such as some tape drives, the Zip drive parallel
port drivers, multiple CD changers, CD. But it's so ugly and nasty to work
with that, for people only using IDE based CD/RW drivers, I urge them to
leave it turned *off* and use the newer versions of CD recording tools.