> Here are some random ideas, please consider adding them to the
> wishlist (http://www.cs.uml.edu/~acahalan/linux/wishlist.html).
> Thanks!
>
[----------snip---------------]
> - change device numbers for IDE CD-ROMs so that they are
> different than those of IDE hard disks (after all, they are
> completely different devices which just happen to share the
> same hardware interface) for consistency with SCSI devices
> (where disk and cdrom with the same SCSI ID are different -
> as they should), and to avoid fdisk -l trying to read the
> partition table from a CD-ROM or (worse) empty CD-ROM drive.
> - support for IDE CD-R/CD-RW writers (if they are standard
> like other IDE devices and unlike SCSI CD writers - are they?)
[----------snip---------------]
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marek
>
Well, I'm the ide-cd guy (and really the general cdrom guy). The first
request you have here wouldn't be very difficult, but might confuse a
lot of people. If people want this I would be glad to do it...
The second issue I am working on. For the time being, you can use the
ide-scsi driver to run your ATAPI CD-R/RW drives without any problems.
The latest versions of cdrecord work perfectly with ATAPI drives & ide-scsi.
I am working on a native driver, but it will not be going into 2.2. (which
is to say that I have been too busy at work to get much done beyond fixing
existing ide-cd bugs and adding in preliminary CD-R/RW support such as changing
the drive speed and detection). If anybody wants to adopt the bugs in
sbpcd and cdu31a, I will have more time to work on CD-R/RW support for
ide-cd.
-Erik
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