[KLUG Members] ide-scsi with SuSE 8.2, now with some actual hardware questions

[Greg Mason]

> What do you mean by "/dev/sr1 wasn't being mounted with
> /dev/cdrecorder"?
/dev/cdrecorder and /dev/dvd are symbolic links. They used to point the 
the correct drives, but now they didn't. I was able to mount my CD-RW 
(/dev/sr1) by using a "mount /dev/cdrecorder"

simply, I did the following to fix it:

ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder

and now it all works like it should.
>
> If anything, I think mounting them on a single bus would degrade
> performance.
>
> If the one drive is reading at 32x, then the writer writes at that 
> speed
> minus any overhead. I think reading, pausing, reading from a CD is more
> inefficient than from a HD. This is speculation on my part, as I've not
> burned directly from a CD, but only from ISOs on a HD.
>
I've seen machines copy from master to slave with no problems (at 32x), 
but it baffles me as well, unless there is somehow of making the drives 
communicate without really using the controller (going directly from 
source to destination without going through the controller).