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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@caldera.com>
Subject: Re: CD-RW IDE drives with SCO 5.04???
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:45:56 GMT References: <9hdauk$lcm$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <3B3AF7F4.C0042B6B@davidaustinroses.co.uk>

Mike Kenyon - David Austin Roses Limited wrote:

> "Steven N. Kenyon" wrote:
> > I'm having a heck of a time finding information about using CD-RW drives
> > with SCO unix.  The latest thing I found was an article saying that SCO does
> > not officially support rewritable CD drives.  While there is a package
> > available called CDRECORD, it apparently only works with SCSI drives.  Has
> > anyone out there had any luck with IDE rewriteables?  Any help greatly
> > appreciated.  THANKS!
> 
> I very much doubt you'll have any luck with an IDE CDRW driver with SCO. Linux
> doesn't support them properly (it fact by pretending that IDE CDROM's are SCSI
> devices Linux can then talk to them through the "generic" SCSI device driver).
> 
> Hold on a minute, SCO supports IDE in a simular way to NT, by pretending that
> it is a (weird) SCSI host adaptor. So CDRecord might work after all...

Sorry, it won't.

However, ATAPI really _IS_ SCSI, disguised behind a layer of cheap
paint.  It's SCSI with enough small tweaks that you can't just use it
and expect it to work -- needs specific driver support to do things like
translate SCSI command blocks into nearly-identical ATAPI command
blocks.  For IDE CD writers to work, the wd "host adapter" driver needs
to know how to translate a few more blocks.  Which I think is being
worked on.

>Bela<

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