Re: UDF patch to 2.2.9

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:48:24 +0200


On Sat, Jun 12 1999, Dave Boynton wrote:
> I'd like to take this opportunity to plead for some needed updates to
> the SCSI and IDE cdrom modules. The UDF module currently makes direct
> calls to the SCSI driver in some places that make it mostly incompatible
> to IDE drives. It would certainly be cleaner if the functions we need
> were implemented in the Uniform CDROM interface. What we need is
> inclusion of the SCSI3/mmc2 command set, which is used by DVDs, CDRs,
> CDRWs, etc. I have a link to some SCSI3/mmc2 information at
> http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/.

I agree. I have been swamped the last two months, but this is
on the agenda list. Expect to see something within a month.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer

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