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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:17:35 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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,
> 

Lovely.  Let's make EACH APPLICATION support two disjoint APIs for no 
good reason.

Got any other brilliant ideas?

	-hpa


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