Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-22 Thread John Polstra
In article Pine.BSF.4.21.0103211840550.79471-10@localhost, Max Khon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, there! On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote: Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; Yes. It's not a lot of work. that would

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: Le 2001-03-21, Mike Smith crivait : Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; Yes. It's not a lot of work. Ah, interesting! Do you know if any source code is publicly available? What do you want it for

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-03-21, Soren Schmidt crivait : - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; What do you want it for actually ? It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao with my ATAPI CD drive. An alternative solution would be to implement an atapi-cd ioctl to send a raw

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-03-21, Mike Smith crivait : SCSI is way of encapsulating scanner commands so that you can transport them to the scanner. So is USB. The command set your scanner uses is probably the same as the SCSI command set, but this is not what a CAM transport would give you - it would only

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: Le 2001-03-21, Soren Schmidt crivait : - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; What do you want it for actually ? It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao with my ATAPI CD drive. An alternative solution would be to

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 21-Mar-01 Thomas Quinot wrote: Um. The CAM tranport in question would not be a reimplementation of the USB layer, of course. What I was mentioning was the possibility of having a CAM transport that wraps a uscan device (just as there is one already that wraps umass devices to make

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote: Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; Yes. It's not a lot of work. that would be GREAT for cd recording on IDE CD-RW (one will be able to use cdrdao and cdrecord instead of burncd) /fjoe

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-20 Thread Drew Eckhardt
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - the Linux SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*)? We already have a far superior mechanism (/dev/pass*) FWIW, The Linux /dev/sg was implemented as a simple way to send SCSI commands to media changer robots in an MO drive library for a

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-19 Thread Nat Lanza
Thomas Quinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; - a CAM transport for USB scanners; - the Linux SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*)? FreeBSD already has an equivalent to the SCSI generic device -- take a look at

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-19 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-03-19, Nat Lanza crivait : FreeBSD already has an equivalent to the SCSI generic device -- take a look at pass(4). Yep, I am aware of pass(4), but some closed-source software that comes only as Linux binaries insist on having a /dev/sg device (which, under FreeBSD, would most likely