One of the aspects that makes open source great, write your own drivers.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Leo J Mauler
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 11:11 PM
To: kclug@kclug.org
Subject: Re: CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:17:29 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins@tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 09:09 am, Rich Edelman wrote:
> 
> >... the cdrecord author doesn't like that
> > [handling IDE directly], and he lets you 
> > know that. 
> 
> What an ass.  Few of us can afford the purist SCSI drives
> he gets to work with, but in spite of the fact that IDE CDR 
> drives have been the norm for years he refuses to face 
> reality.

When did Linux driver authors stop writing drivers for really cheap
hardware (i.e., the most common since everyone could afford it) and
start writing mostly drivers for really expensive hardware?  

It seems that the cdrecord author's life situation could provide an
answer to the question of why low-end hardware isn't getting as much
Linux support as it used to.

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