Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 12:14:54 EST


> >Its a message from the drive politely requesting cd-record to talk valid
> >commands. But as ide-scsi touches some commands (remapping old ones that are
> >not supported on ATAPI) its possible to be kernel
>
> Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly?

IDE cd burners talk ATAPI. ATAPI is just a scsi variant. SCSI won the battle
at the protocol level

        IDE ATAPI is SCSI protocol subset
        SCSI bus is SCSI protocol
        USB mass storage is SCSI protocol subset
        Fibre channel is SCSI protocol

etc

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