Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:44:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
| |
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
I'm talking specifically about ATAPI devices here. As we have already covered, not all ATA devices are ATAPI, but unless I'm completely off the wall, ATAPI is SCSI over IDE, and should be able to be driven as such. The lack of access to that interface using the established interface mechanisms just bites.
You fund it!
Other people did not even think about the problem, or even lack the needed knowledge.
Alan Cox is one of the latter ones :-( he only tries to avoid needed changes ithout any technical reason.
If you have a IDE based CD-ROM drive that does not support ATAPI, why not handle it the only way it makes sense?
Such a drive is no more than a read-only hard disk and may be accessed via the HD IDE read interface. You will never be able to use it to e.g. rip audio data off it.
If there really is a poor school that cannot afford to buy a modern 20-30 Euro CD-ROM drive, then this school can liveas long as they are able to install the OS from the old (1992) CD-ROM they currently own.
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/
| |