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SubjectRe: sg-style ATAPI commands in 2.6
On Thu, Oct 02 2003, Zinx Verituse wrote:
> I haven't found much information on the raw ATAPI command
> interface provided in Linux 2.6, but from what I can tell
> it can understand the sg3 interface.
>
> However, I can't open the device read-write, so mmap'd IO
> is impossible, and unless it's currently horribly insecure,
> I can't write CDs anyway.
>
> I was just wondering what the desired behavior is, if there's
> a different style interface I'm supposed to use, etc.

Right now, only the SG_IO ioctl is supported. Support for full (as much
as makes sense) sg v3 support is planned and in progress.

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Jens Axboe

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