> >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!
Yes. I even have the mt fuji spec handy. Its a work of fiction at best.
> >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?
No I was busy writing an OS - and you ?
> ALL CD-ROM's since ~ 1993 support ATAPI which _is_ ide-scsi
My dual speed drive does not support ATAPI. It supports the removable media
commands and a few obscure microsoftisms. ide-scsi fails on it. I doubt its
that atypical
> >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?
No read what I said. And talk to the IDE maintainers - then you might actually
get somewhere.
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