Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 08:15:35 EST


> I'm talking specifically about ATAPI devices here. As we have already
> covered, not all ATA devices are ATAPI, but unless I'm completely off
> the wall, ATAPI is SCSI over IDE, and should be able to be driven as
> such. The lack of access to that interface using the established
> interface mechanisms just bites.

If you load ide-scsi they are run as ATAPI, whats the problem ? Just don't
do that for very old ide cdroms or for some ide floppies
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