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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Date: 11 Jul 2002 22:03:33 -0700
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Followup to:  <E17Son2-0001yp-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author:    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom
> > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE.
> 
> They aren't.
> 
> o	Not all ide cdrom devices are ATAPI capable
> o	Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong
> o	ide-tape is -totally- weird and unrelated to st
> 

OK, non-ATAPI devices need not apply, obviously, but the argument
still applies for ATAPI devices...

	-hpa
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