Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 | Date | 11 Jul 2002 22:03:33 -0700 |
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Followup to: <E17Son2-0001yp-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom > > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE. > > They aren't. > > o Not all ide cdrom devices are ATAPI capable > o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong > o ide-tape is -totally- weird and unrelated to st >
OK, non-ATAPI devices need not apply, obviously, but the argument still applies for ATAPI devices...
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