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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:10:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com>
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To: David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
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Subject: Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David Balazic wrote:

> Michael E Brown (michael_e_brown@dell.com) worte :
>
> > That has been tried. No, it does not work. :-) Using Scsi-Generic is the
> > only way so far found, but of course, it only works on SCSI drives.
>
> Did you try scsi-emulation on IDE disks ?

I think that scsi-emulation works only for ATAPI devices. CDROMs are
normally ATAPI. HDs are normally just ATA. I don't think that would work,
but I have not tried it, either.
--
Michael Brown
Linux Systems Group
Dell Computer Corp

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