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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom
> > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE.
>
> They aren't.
>
> o Not all ide cdrom devices are ATAPI capable
> o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong
> o ide-tape is -totally- weird and unrelated to st
>
> Andre did the framework ready to move to a situation where you could open
> either the ide-scsi or the ide-cdrom name without module reloading mess.
> You'd need to ask our new 2.5 IDE maintainer to finish that work off.

It was deleted, LOL.

What you really need another NEW maintainer or any other replacement.

> For disk it gets much easier. Linus has already said he wants a single
> 'disk' device, which once we get 32bit dev_t will be nice. With that we
> can finally turn aacraid, megaraid and other 'fake scsi' devices back to
> raw block devices without breaking compatibility assumptions, and get more
> throughput.
>
> Alan
>
>
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