Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751087AbWBBTix (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:38:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751174AbWBBTix (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:38:53 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:34022 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751087AbWBBTiw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:38:52 -0500 Message-ID: <43E2602C.2090008@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:40:28 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: CD writing - related question References: <43DEA195.1080609@tmr.com> <20060201210433.GC8552@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060201210433.GC8552@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1477 Lines: 39 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 30-01-06 18:30:29, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>Please take this as a question to elicit information, not >>an invitation for argument. >> >>In Linux currently: >> SCSI - liiks like SCSI >> USB - looks like SCSI >> Firewaire - looks like SCSI >> SATA - looks like SCSI >> Compact flash and similar - looks like SCSI > > > Your definition of "looks like scsi" is way too broad. CF looks like > PCMCIA and that in turn is ide chip on isa-like bus. > > (unless you plug it to usb reader) > I was unaware of any serious use of PCMCIA reader cards therese days, as you note the CD shows up as an sd device. I have a laptop which might have a card slot, if it takes CD I'll pull one from my camera and try it there instead of the USB reader. The question is still why not make all devices look like SCSI, and use one set of drivers and a bit of glue. Redhat used to use ide-scsi by default if my memory serves, and the overhead wasn't an issue even back on my 1st Linux laptop running Slackware on a Thinkpad 486-25 (the fat one, not the 486-16 -;). -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/