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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
>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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