On 2008-10-17, William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:05:07 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
> Joerg Schilling works for OpenSolaris &, as i've pointed out elsewhere,
> some say that his blogs reflect hostility towards Linux.
> There's a long thread in the "linux-kernel" mailing list from 2005:
> Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog
This is from README.ATAPI in the cdrecord distribution:
When cdrecord has problems with ATAPI drives on Linux this usually is a
Linux kernel problem. The Linux kernel maintainers unfortunately refuse
to correct their current IDE driver system setup which does not support
ATAPI by default. ATAPI _is_ SCSI over IDE transport. It is hard to
understand why Linux still uses a default driver setup that is designed
for IDE CD-ROM drives made before 1994 (using a IDE compat mode that
only allows to use the drive read-only) and does not handle to send SCSI
commands to ATAPI drives by default. This makes it hard for people who
just started with Linux to do CD-writing on Linux if they own an ATAPI
drive. Both Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox admit that they don't own a
CD/DVD writer, how should they know about the problems?
There are bugs with the DMA implementation that are known for many years
but they don't get fixed.
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Do you think he is correct in his criticism of the Linux kernel's
implementation of the ATAPI protocol?
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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