Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:08:38 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> > SG_IO was used in ide-scsi a long time before it was needlessly introduced > > on top of /dev/hd* > > Needlessly? Not true. It was missing from the layer, as all modern ATA devices > do support some form of ATAPI, which is, as you've so frequently pointed out, > a form of SCSI. So why is an unneeded thing to introduce the ability to use > that full capacity?
There used to be generic support, so this way of support is unneeded.
The fact that people did make ide-scsi (the generic way) impossible to use is a bug that needs to be fixed.
Jörg
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