Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264209AbTEGTXX (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264218AbTEGTXH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:23:07 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:42136 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264209AbTEGTVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:21:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:33:47 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Pascal Schmidt Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [IDE] trying to make MO drive work with ide-floppy/ide-cd Message-ID: <20030507193347.GU823@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 23 On Wed, May 07 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote: > > The below patch allows me to use the ATAPI MO drive read-only using > ide-cd. It does not send the drive any commands it might not understand. > I'm still trying to get write support to work, but being able to read > from the drive is an independent feature and useful in itself, I think. > Would it be possible to apply this to 2.5? > > Tested by reading an entire ext2 filesystem from an MO disk and comparing > against the result obtained from 2.4 with ide-scsi/sd. No differences. Definitely, this looks like a fine start. As far as I'm concerned, it would be fine to commit to 2.5. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/