Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Devices not supporting read-6.... | | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:20:35 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Either we should *always* send IDE commands through the SCSI subsystem > (effectively treating IDE as a form of SCSI; I believe NT does this) > or I'd like to see a way to issue generic ATAPI commands -- > preferrably via a "generic ATAPI device" analogous to what SCSI has > (and parport IDE, I belive) -- i.e. /dev/hg0 et al -- or via an > ioctl().
From what I understand of ATA-66 this is needed to get the fancier features the disks will at least notionally be supporting.
> There probably also should be an ioctl() for the cooked SCSI and IDE > devices to find the equivalent generic device.
Good point
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