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SubjectRe: atapi write support? No
On Tue, Sep 09 2003, Markus Plail wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
> >Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 09 2003, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> > There is no other information needed.
>
> There is...
>
> > By use atapi write support i mean Get it to do anything besides error
> > out reporting that it cant access the drive. If you can query the
> > drive much less actually write anything to it using the ATAPI
> > interface than that's more than i've been able to do.
> >
> > for example cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 checkdisk
>
> ATAPI: is most likely wrong for what you want to do. It's meant for
> notebooks (PCATA or something).
> If you just want to get rid of ide-scsi, you have to use dev=/dev/hdX in
> cdrecord.

That ATAPI support is slow and unreliable, Joerg was a fool to merge it.
It shold _not_ be used! Using dev=/dev/hdX is required for SG_IO in 2.6
right now, other methods should be usable in the future. So Markus is
dead right.

> PS: A little change in attitude towards people who are willing to help
> you wouldn't be the worst idea. IMHO of course.

Indeed, and doing just a little work before showing up with an attitude
would be even better. It's amazing how people asking for help think they
can define the rules as well.

--
Jens Axboe

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