| Bill Jonas on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:50:55 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:51:56PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > Hardly a RH-original, though. NeXTStep does this, Irix does it, > Solaris does it. On reflection, I guess it's not so bad. It just surprised me when I first saw /dev/scd0 being owned by user bj. I think there's some other magic going on besides *dm, though, as it worked when I logged in at the (physical and virtual) console on my (test, but currently RH) machine here at home, which doesn't even have X installed. > It's not Linux, it's cdrecord, This is very true. I should have realized this in light of my "FBSD provides burncd for IDE and cdrecord for SCSI" statement. I guess this is an itch that no one's felt the need to scratch yet because of the emulation provided by Linux. > and it's because IDE CD-Rs are an abomination (it's *really* easy to > get bad burns off them, by, oh, I don't know, sending traffic down the > bus). ...which reminds me: I think it was on PLUG this was discussed, but I can't remember for sure. I have an on-board IDE RAID controller on my motherboard. (iWill KK-266R, <http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spec.asp?ModelName=KK266-R&SupportID=>) /proc/pci says it's a "CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 2).". Ought this to work as a plain old IDE controller if I just plug devices into it? I don't think there's a Linux driver for this chipset anyway (at least, not the last time I checked about a year ago). (Purchased instead of the non-RAID version because it was just a few dollars more.) > Nevertheless, your complaint's well founded (the software exists to > support the drives without emulating a different bus, why not do > it?). So go fix it. :^> I've been telling myself I should. ;) -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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