Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

>
> Don't even start. In a private exchange you stated that you had been thinking 
> of mapping ATA/ATAPI devices into a "middle" bus slot to remove the need for 
> the "ATA" and "ATAPI" host identifiers and to allow libscg to scan the 
> ATA/ATAPI bus at the same time it scans the SCSI bus on Linux systems.
>
> I asked about using the numbers provided by Linux - ie. /dev/hda = 6,3,0 - and 
> you said it was wrong and not useful. I've since asked you in another private 
> mail if you have another solution I could code into the patch and don't 
> expect a reply until tomorrow.

And I explained you why this is inapropriate. So what is your peoblem?

Jörg

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