Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:19:12 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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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 |  |