Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:50:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
| |
>Alan Cox wrote:
>If you load ide-scsi they are run as ATAPI, whats the problem ? Just don't >do that for very old ide cdroms or for some ide floppies
Sounds like you got the message to some extent.
Why don't think this to it's reasonable end: Use ATAPI for all modern (1993..1995 or newer) drives and support what old drives can do - reading data CD-ROM media via the IDE read interface. This can be done via the ATA HD drive interface.
Jörg
EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |