What is IDE-SCSI???

[slacker_x]

I've looked at a few old posts about this. It seems that it is mainly used for IDE CD burners to emulate SCSI devices.

Why is this done? Are there any other applications for this?

[SubPar]

All CD-writing tools are written to talk with SCSI devices. IDE burners use emulation in order to appear as SCSI devices. In Linux, that's done through the IDE-SCSI emulation module. In Windows, it's with an ASPI layer. Same stuff, different words.