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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:13:21 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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On Thu Jul 11, 2002 at 05:27:11PM -0700, 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.

cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would
work regardless,

 -Erik

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