Hi,

Am Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:53:25 +0100, schrieb MikeyD:

>> I *don't have* scsi emulation, i'm using atapi, and it works very good for
>> me... ok, i'm doing everything as a root maybe that makes a difference
>>
> Do you have a slow drive? There's no DMA using atapi, not to mention the
> kernel code being unmaintained and IME buggy, for speeds > about 24x it's
> really not an option.

Maybe he's using kernel 2.6.x and you still 2.4.y?
With linux kernel 2.6 a new ATAPI interface has been developed and is
directly available with the IDE driver and supported by cdrecord.
'dev=/dev/hdc' is then the right way to specify the drive

Juergen