Charlie O wrote: >So why is it a problem that my CD burner works? > >This is Debian sarge, installed last fall, 2.4.26 kernel. CD burner >with K3B works just fine. > >The problem is, I don't have ide-scsi turned on anywhere; the CD is >still at /dev/hdc. > >If I go to the command line and do cdrecord -scanbus, I do not get any >valid devices. If I look at K3B setup I don't see any special >parameters. > >I thought you needed scsi emulation to use a CD burner in the 2.4 series kernel. > >Can someone explain to me why this is working with K3B? > > You don't *need* ide-scsi, it was just the most stable driver for a quite some time. k3b uses cdrecord, and newer versions of cdrecord, combined with driver enhancements in the 2.4 kernel enable CD burning to work quite well without the ide-scsi interface. Granted, there isn't a good document somewhere that says, "Great news! You no longer need to use ide-scsi to burn CDs in the 2.4 kernel!" (http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/IDE_CD_Writer being the closest), however I was able to find the answer after 5-10 minutes with Google. -- jeremy