[WYLUG-help] still trying to get this machine to copy cds/dvd s

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Towle, William wrote:

>  Intriguingly, Linus was provoked into using
> descriptions like "evil" and the apparently
> very scathing "in bad taste" by this (thanks
> largely to sane system design, I've never
> had a problem that needed this fix). The
> somewhat more lucid statements on ide-scsi
> always having caused more problems than it
> solves and thus being "a silly emulation
> layer that wasn't really worth it" pale by
> comparison!

Thanks to ide-scsi I did at one stage have a machine that could only read a CD
without ide-scsi, and could only write one with...  Reading off the emulated
SCSI device was shunned completely by the drive.

jh

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