Mark Lord wrote:
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:01, Mark Lord wrote:
..
Add a boot/module parameter for libata to force the ATA_16
SCSI opcode to not be interpreted as a standards-compliant
ATA passthrough mechanism when used on an ATAPI device
 -- instead, it gets passed directly to the ATAPI device.
..
+int atapi_passthru = 0;
+module_param(atapi_passthru, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(atapi_passthru, "Enable passthru of SCSI opcode 0x85 to ATAPI 
devices");

Oh, and if anyone can come up with a less-sucky name for this variable,
then PLEASE do so!  I don't like it, but had trouble inventing anything
better that didn't harken back to my (long ago) COBOL days.. ;)

Cheers
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