On Sat, 19 May 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>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!
Your conclusions are purely speculative.
>>> >- 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?
I wouldn't even answer that one myself...
>ALL CD-ROM's since ~ 1993 support ATAPI which _is_ ide-scsi
I think the point Alan is getting at, is that not all drives
support the spec properly or fully. Ie, they are broken.
That is my understanding anyway. Correct me if I am wrong.
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