Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:00:37 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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>From root@chaos.analogic.com Fri Jul 12 22:18:47 2002
>As much as I hate IDE, IDE isn't going away. All my systems use SCSI >so on machines that have CD/ROMS, I use your libraries and your tools.
>Maybe somebody should make CD/ROM code that directly talks to IDE via >/dev/hdwhatever, instead of expecting you to modify your code that >has worked so well for so long.
This would be a really bad idea.
Such a change would force me to add a 6th (and unneeded) new interface. Why? What problem would be solved if you did introduce such an interface?
Jörg
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