acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

[Terence McCarthy]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:45:45 -0500
Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:


> It is my understanding that the cdrom drives need to be addressed as scsi > devices.  

No. You only need SCSI emulation if you wish to use a CD writer. As most Linux progs originally were written for Unix type systems where SCSI is very common if not standard, the various CD writing utils look for a SCSI CD writer.

SCSI emulation makes the IDE CD writer appear to the software as a SCSI device. Do not compile SCSI support and SCSI emulation into the kernel together. 

This, at least, is my understanding (I'll be flamed if this is incorrect :)!)

HTH

Terence