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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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On 11 Jul 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this
> in detail, but I would again like to consider the following,
> especially given the changes in 2.5:
>
> Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom
> and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE.
> It is a source of no ending confusion that a Linux system will not
> write CDs to an IDE CD-writer out of the box, for the simple reason
> that cdrecord needs access to the generic packet interface, which is
> only available in the nonstandard ide-scsi configuration.
>
> There really seems to be no decent reason to treat ATAPI devices as
> anything else.  I understand the ide-* drivers contain some
> workarounds for specific devices, but those really should be moved to
> their respective SCSI drivers anyway -- after all, manufacturers
> readily slap IDE or SCSI interfaces on the same devices anyway.

Already discussed/planned.

Also it has to be done with care on evolution, not revolution way.

Regards
--
Bartlomiej

> Note that this is specific to ATAPI devices.  ATA hard drives are
> another matter entirely.
>
> 	-hpa
>
> --
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