Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 00:03:33 EST


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...

        -hpa

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