Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)

William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Audioslave - 7M3 - Live said:
> 
>>>I would not dare to second-guess Red Hat's Legal Department. BUT...
>>>this is mighty strange:
>>>SUSE 8.1
>>>http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/multimedia.html
>>>
>>
>>I checked the site and was impressed with this ability, the most.
>>
>>CD ripping even works from Atapi CD-ROM/DVD-ROM devices without SCSI
>>emulation. K3B supports CDDB via http, cddbp, or a local CDDB directory.
>>
>>With the ide direct approach, it seems more reliable, at least in
>>theory.
>>
>>Jim
> 
> [snip]
> 
> It's been a while, but I thought SCSI emulation was just required for
> burning CDs?
> 
> Looking at Grip's home page (http://nostatic.org/grip/), which is
> mentioned on the RH page about the MP3 issue, and ships with Red Hat 8.0
> at least, I see that SCSI emulation is suggested to increase performance,
> but not required.  I quote "If you are using an IDE CDrom drive, using
> SCSI emulation can give a significant performance increase. Apparently,
> dma is not used by the IDE driver (at least in 2.4 kernels)."
> 

Thanks for pointing out my mis-interpretation. I was reading in that IDE 
was used to burn the CDs. I've ripped oggs from my reader and never 
thought about the issue. Never using the ide-scsi module.

This was really directed at figuring out on how to keep cdrs from 
accumulating a lot of additional garbage, in my case. I have an ogg CDR 
that had so many errors and timeouts within the CD,I thought that a 
specific and dedicated driver for the burner might add to the burn 
quality of the CDs that I have burned.

Maybe a /dev/cdbr or similar device needs to be developed. Even if it is 
an incorporated driver from ide-scsi driving the ide driver. There would 
be a tighter control for better burning of discs.

I'm in favor of some sort of "traffic cop", to prevent other processes 
from attempting to interfere with the burning cd process.

Jim


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