[paranoia] ide-cd or icd-scsi with kernel 2.6.3?

[Bill Davidsen]

Peter Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 02:18, TB wrote:
> 
>>Please reply directly to me; I'm not on the list.
>>
>>ide-scsi is deprecated in 2.6 series kernel.  However, the same CD track with my 
>>Lite-on 52x CD rips in :14 seconds with ide-scsi and :19 seconds with ide-cd.
>>
>>Should I continue using the deprecated ide-scsi interface as advised by the FAQ?
> 
> 
> For now, yes.
> 
> 
>>Will an updated cdparnoia eventually cease favoring ide-scsi?
> 
> 
> I'm not in a position of authority, so I can't say for sure, but I'm
> actively working on a patch to switch to the new APIs presented by
> ide-cd.  Shouldn't take a lot of work or time, but then again I don't
> have a lot to spare :/
> 
For writing audio, the ide-cd is better, since it can use DMA with the 
2.6 kernel and has far less overhead. But I have not had reproducible 
results with readcd, so ide-scsi is still desirable there. Actually 2.4 
might be the path of least astonishment.


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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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