Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:29:47 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Devices not supporting read-6.... |
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Hi!
> > > I have been thinking about the earlier comment you made, the one > > > about providing ATAPI support through SCSI emulation purely like > > > Windows NT does (and other OS' too). Provide a nice packet layer > > > that doesn't differentiate between ATAPI and SCSI, commands > > > could be queued through SG or similar. This exact discussion > > > was raised on linux-scsi about a year ago, if I remember correctly. > > > > > > > Well, that's exactly what ide-scsi does, so doing that is definitely an > > option (and is currently the *only* way to do this.) If so we should > > ditch the IDE drivers completely and do everything through ide-scsi. > > Yes, and the "neutral" layer would then be the SCSI layer, which > is fine. ide-cd.* could be thrown out. The only problem I see with > that is the loss of drive work-arounds for not quite compatible > hardware.
Is that really problem? We already have blacklists for broken SCSI hardware... [I do not know much about atapi/scsi subsystem...]
Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org
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