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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> >cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would
> >work regardless,
>
> Wis you ever look at the cdrecord sources?
>
> Cdrecord relies on libscg which is a generic SCSI transport library.
> It has been first written in August 1986 when I wrote the first SCSI
> pass through driver (for SunOS-3.0) - long before Adapted came out with
> ASPI. In the 16 years of evolution, it has been ported to > 30
> different platforms (not including CPU variants like sparc/x86).
>
> If you force cdrecord to rely on CD-ROM only interfaces, you make Linux
> unusable in general. Do you really like to create an unusable Linux just
> to avoid creating a usable generic SCSI transport interface?
> J
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