Stumbling block on road to going Linux-only, the dvdrw is very odd.

Bob King bob.king.1138 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 15:25:06 EST 2007


On Nov 19, 2007 2:57 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> Not a Mandriva expert, but my guess is you're probably seeing the new
> ATA subsystem in Fedora 7 and the old one in Mandriva 2008 (hence
> the /dev/hd* designation).

Fedora was using the sg* driver to treat the cdrom as a scsi device,
which as I understood it was the older way to do things. I will have
to check Fedora 8 and see what it does.

> They switched because the new one has a
> lot less suck in it for most cases, so you might be able to force
> (with a kernel flag?) the new one to be used on Mandriva, provided
> the kernel supports it.  Failing that somebody probably has a guide
> to updating to the latest kernel.org kernel on Mandriva you could
> follow.

I will certainly see what I can dig up on that, thanks!


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