Re: Devices not supporting read-6....

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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:

> [...]
>
> Either we should *always* send IDE commands through the SCSI subsystem
> (effectively treating IDE as a form of SCSI; I believe NT does this)
> or I'd like to see a way to issue generic ATAPI commands --
> preferrably via a "generic ATAPI device" analogous to what SCSI has
> (and parport IDE, I belive) -- i.e. /dev/hg0 et al -- or via an
> ioctl().

I think almost every system but Linux now does this, not just NT. I'm puzzled
why Linux continues this schizophrenic behaviour. Nostaligia for the good old
ST506, maybe?

> [...]

Steve

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