Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:33:51 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: atapi write support? No |
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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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