Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:58:14 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:25863 "HELO garrincha.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:58:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:00:53 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Joerg Schilling cc: andersen@codepoet.org, Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 In-Reply-To: <200207141418.g6EEIbJp019125@burner.fokus.gmd.de> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 30 On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From andersen@codepoet.org Sat Jul 13 07:40:59 2002 > >happen. For starters, Linux devices don't have to be forced to > >all be sitting on the SCSI bus. You could use standard Linux > >device names (i.e. /dev/hdc or /dev/scd0). And you could still > >send all the SCSI/ATAPI packet commands you want to the device > >that was selected using the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl. > > For a starter, it is easier to understand the SCSI concept of > addressing than to understand the Linux concept. In addition, > the SCSI addressing concept can be used on different platforms The traditional SCSI concept of addressing is not compatible with SAN style hardware, like iscsi or large fibre channel setups. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/