H.P. Anvin wrote:
>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.
Thank you for this thread!
libscg now has 5 different SCSI transport interface implementations
only for Linux.
There are still problems like e.g. USB which not really usable.
>There really seems to be no decent reason to treat ATAPI devices as
>anything else. I understand the ide-* drivers contain some
>workarounds for specific devices, but those really should be moved to
>their respective SCSI drivers anyway -- after all, manufacturers
>readily slap IDE or SCSI interfaces on the same devices anyway.
>Note that this is specific to ATAPI devices. ATA hard drives are
>another matter entirely.
A reasonable idea would be to make the ATA driver a SCSI HBAdriver and
in case that there is a need for pure ATA (e.g. Hard disks) there should
be a second interface for a ATA driver stack.
Please keep me on the CC: I am not on the list.
Jörg
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