>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 16:04:12 2001
>> >- ide cdrom is limited and does not reflect reality
>It reflects reality quite nicely - that is one reason it is limited. Oh and
>don't bother quuting wonderous things the drives can do from the ATAPI spec,
>most drives can't.
Did you ever check what a ATAPI CD-ROM really can do? From this statement
is is clear that not!
>> >- ide-scsi is _not_ limited but implemented buggy on Linux
>ide-scsi as a protocol is very limited. Many CD-ROM drives also dont
>support it.
Alan what did you do the last 8 years? Did you sleep?
ALL CD-ROM's since ~ 1993 support ATAPI which _is_ ide-scsi
>People are wlecome to fix the ide-scsi code. They should talk to Jens Axboe
>and Eric Youngdale about it not me. I am all for people fixing bugs in it
>where they exist.
>As I understand it the longer term plan for 2.5 is to rip out all the old scsi
>compatibility gunge in the scsi mid layer and move to a more freebsd like set
>up.
So you are planning to drop ATAPI support completely?
Did you check FreeBSD? The ATAPI Layer for FreeBSD is completely separated from the
SCSI layer and you cannot use CD-writing programs with ATAPI Writers.
A really nice idea in times where the manufacturer decide to sell more and more
ATAPI drives and fewer and fewer 8-bit Parallel SCSI drives.
J�rg
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