>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 16:33:49 2001
>>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.
Do you reject to write drivers for SCSI or IDE hard disks because
some of them may have problems?
I never found any significant problem (i.e. a problem that would prevent
me from using SCSI commands) in ATAPI CD-ROM's.
Note that without SCSI commands you are limited to reading
vanilla CD-ROM MODE 1 data tracks - anything bejond requires SCSI commands.
Even mounting a multi-session CD forces you to use SCSI commands.
The more your driver knows about SCSI, the more it can do with your drive.
Of course each drive has bugs but this also applys for vanilla SCSI CD-ROM's.
Even cdrecord has to deal with many SCSI bugs in drives. Writing clever code
that tries to work between the lines of the SCSI standard keeping in mind
what vendors may missinterpret from the standard helps.
J�rg
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