Re: FW: [Cooker] devfs & my cd-rw ide device

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > > The problem is with devfs+ide-scsi there is no /dev/hdc (or /dev/ide/...)
> > > if hdc is ide-scsi'd so it is impossible to use hdparm.
> > 
> > you can have it if you've both eide cd and ide-scsi drivers in kernel core
> > (not tested with modules).
> > 
> > /dev/XX is availlable to hdparm even when XXX=ide-scsi is there.
>
> What is eide? I can't find it anywhere in kernel-source.

you can say eide = ide = ata

extended ide has replaced ide for quite a number of years, now.

it provided us with :
- two ide channels
- atapi integration

it has then been enhanced to support higher data rate (udma 33, 66, 100, 133)


i wanted to mean: normal ide driver for cds and ide-scsi.