How can I know if IDE-SCSI is included in my distribution

Very interesting Phantom. Your post caused me to do a little googling and I came up with this:
http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt

Anybody else seen anything about this?

Thanks for the link, Rick...
That is exactly what my InCD software does.
I believe that UDF refers to Universal Data Format.

I am planning to build a Linux system from scratch.
I will have to give linux-udf a try when the time comes. 8)

As I understand it packet writing will be in the 2.6 kernel. Not sure where I read this though.