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

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

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

> > SG_IO was used in ide-scsi a long time before it was needlessly introduced
> > on top of /dev/hd*
>
> Needlessly? Not true. It was missing from the layer, as all modern ATA devices 
> do support some form of ATAPI, which is, as you've so frequently pointed out, 
> a form of SCSI. So why is an unneeded thing to introduce the ability to use 
> that full capacity?

There used to be generic support, so this way of support is unneeded.

The fact that people did make ide-scsi (the generic way) impossible to use
is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Jörg

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