Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ide-floppy [Fwd: Updated ATAPI FORMAT_UNIT patch.] | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:59:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> One of my concerns is that we don't take the ide-floppy driver in a > different direction to the other removeable media drives.
In general the others do it raw via scsi commands and sg.
> For Alan Cox, could you back out Sam's patch for now. It will be back > soon.
When the new one is sorted. I'm not going to feed it to Linus anyhow. For the moment there are quite a few people glad of it
> > > > * Ability to open the device even if there's no disk in the drive. This > > > > is needed by the userspace app to probe the device. The open path sends a
Other devices allow this for O_NDELAY only.
> > 1) A separate minor device that will open whether or not there's a > > formatted disk in the drive. I don't like this approach.
Ugly. Thats a lot of extra devices.
> > The O_EXCL trick seems the cleanest way to be able to access the device
Use the same O_NDELAY cdroms do
> > Suppose that two months from now the Clik drive gets new firmware that > > reports a slightly different model ID, say "IOMEGA Clik! 80 CZ ATAPI". > > Or, perhaps, it's a new model of the Clik drive, that shares the same > > shortcomings. > > Yep. Looks extremely possible.
Nod. I've already suggested a seperate blacklist table of device id/flaws as SCSI does
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