Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:17:35 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Jul 11, 2002 at 05:27:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this >>in detail, but I would again like to consider the following, >>especially given the changes in 2.5: >> >>Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom >>and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE. >>It is a source of no ending confusion that a Linux system will not >>write CDs to an IDE CD-writer out of the box, for the simple reason >>that cdrecord needs access to the generic packet interface, which is >>only available in the nonstandard ide-scsi configuration. > > > cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would > work regardless, >
Lovely. Let's make EACH APPLICATION support two disjoint APIs for no good reason.
Got any other brilliant ideas?
-hpa
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