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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:15:35 +0100 (BST)
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> I'm talking specifically about ATAPI devices here.  As we have already 
> covered, not all ATA devices are ATAPI, but unless I'm completely off 
> the wall, ATAPI is SCSI over IDE, and should be able to be driven as 
> such.  The lack of access to that interface using the established 
> interface mechanisms just bites.

If you load ide-scsi they are run as ATAPI, whats the problem ? Just don't
do that for very old ide cdroms or for some ide floppies
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