>Alan Cox wrote:
>> In favour of the scrap:
>>
>> 1. HPA.
>> 2. Adam J. Richter.
>> 3. Marcin Dalecki (basically due to give up on the idea
>> of gradual unification).
>In other words nobody who understands IDE is for and everyone who
>understands you can't actually get rid of ide-floppy, tape, cdrom internal
>support and knows about IDE is..
I am not sure if any of your statements before does proove that you have
knowledge on IDE, you definitely seem to miss important knowledge about SCSI.
I hope that this will not result in missing the chance of converting
to a more useful driver concept.
There are enough other OS that use a common ATAPI/SCSI driver concept and
do not have the problems you vagely name but never really describe.
I believe it's OK to drop support for 10 year old hardware in case this
is no important hardware that _really_ needs continued support (like
e.g. 9 track trapes).
ATA devices that are neither hard disks, nor do support ATAPI decently
are Y 1992 crap - so unless you like to have continued support for your
provate museum, what is the reason that you like to prevent a change
to a more usable driver interface?
Jörg
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