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From: Cheyenne, WY

Registered: 2007-10-05

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SCSI or ATA mode with X-CDroast?

I'm ripping my old vinyl collection (remember those, kids?) to CD and I notice that xcdroast recognizes my DVD/CDRW drive as both a SCSI device and an ATA device.  Funny thing about the warning messages...

If I set up the preferred devices as SCSI, xcdroast is happy but the cdrkit utility it shells to complains that support for "the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax" may cease in the future.  So fine, I switched it to the native ATA mode; now wodim is happy but xcdroast complains that "you will experience long delays within X-CD-Roast".

It's always something!  So which is better to use, the pseudo SCSI mode that will soon be unsupported or the native ATA mode that will experience long delays?

I love open source, really I do, and I'm grateful to all the developers who do stuff I can only dream of learning how to code... but sometimes the egos and the political posturing interferes with the quality of the work.

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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY