[UFO Chicago] Dead DVD does dubious dance during desired duties

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Quoting Jesse Becker:
> > The only really GAR thing about it is that Linux can't
> > seem to handle SCSI DVD reading, and can't handle IDE CD 
> > writing, so I have to have ide-cdrom and SCSI emulation 
> > compiled seperately as modules, and havethe ide-cdrom in 
> > the kernel when I'm writing, then switch to the the
> > SCSI crap to write.
> 
> Icky.  However, I've heard that newer 2.5 kernels have
> direct IDE CDRW support.  I don't have any hardware to
> actually try this on though.

Another reason to have separate devices, and use sg on your writer,
and leave the cdrom/dvd alone.

For the record, I have a few old CDROM drives laying around, but in
general, CD drives flake out for me before the system becomes useless.

pedro