[LUNI] Update: IDE CD burner frustrations -- Black Screen of Death

[scott thomason]

Hehe, I've since replaced it with Gentoo 1.4rc1. However, to answer 
your question, I have an IDE hard drive as a primary on each channel, 
and my CD burner as a secondary on the second channel. But it really 
shouldn't matter much with modern hardware. Unless it's SCSI, and 
then you need chicken blood and voodoo or something, I forget 
which...
---scott

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:54 am, Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> OK, maybe I'll give Red Hat 8.0 a try...  BTW, what is your IDE
> primary and secondary device setup?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott thomason [mailto:scott at thomasons.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: luni at luni.org
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Update: IDE CD burner frustrations -- Black
> Screen of Death
>
> On Monday 18 November 2002 05:04 pm, Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> > When cdrecord has problems with ATAPI drives on Linux this
> > usually is a Linux
> > kernel problem. The Linux kernel maintainers unfortunately refuse
> > to correct their current IDE driver system setup which does not
> > support ATAPI by default.
> > ATAPI _is_ SCSI over IDE transport. It is hard to understand why
> > Linux still uses a standard driver setup that is designed for IDE
> > CD-ROM drives made before 1994 (using a IDE compat mode that only
> > allows to use the drive read-only) and does not handle to send
> > SCSI commands to ATAPI drives by default. This makes it hard for
> > people who just started with Linux to do CD-writing on Linux if
> > they own an ATAPI drive.
>
> Believe it or not, there is some discussion on doing away with this
> madness in 2.5. But it may not make the cut.
>
> > By a show of hands/e-mails, if you use an IDE burner, 1) what
> > Linux distro do you use; 2) is it stock or did you compile the
> > kernel 3) and/or cdrecord?
>
> I've had good luck with RH80 and my new ATAPI Plexwriter using
> Redhat's standard kernel. When I replaced that kernel with
> 2.4.19+preempt, I found I could no longer burn at 48x (the max
> capacity of the drive); I had to back down to 24x. I assume one of
> those 200 patches Redhat applies deals with this...
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