Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 | Date | 11 Jul 2002 17:27:11 -0700 |
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Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this in detail, but I would again like to consider the following, especially given the changes in 2.5:
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.
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.
-hpa
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