Re: ATAPI cdrecord issue 2.5.67

John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:29:10 +0100 (BST)


>
> Alan Cox writes:
> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > I think ide-scsi needs to be supported for some time going forward.
> > > After all, cdrecord, cdrdao, dvdrecord aren't going to be the only
> > > applications.
> >
> > And far longer than that. People seem to be testing and demoing
> > crazy things like SATA attached scanners, printers and even enclosure
> > services.
>
> ATAPI tape drives will need ide-scsi too, unless ide-tape somehow
> got repaired lately. And some people already use ide-scsi+st in
> 2.4 since ide-tape doesn't always work reliably.
>
> ide-scsi isn't just for CD/DVD writers.

How long will it be before somebody develops an ATAPI, SCSI host
adaptor, I.E. a SCSI host adaptor which appears as an ATAPI device?

(I know that ATAPI really is effectively just a SCSI transport, but
you can already get SCSI, SCSI host adaptors, I.E. where the devices
on the second-level adaptor appear as the logical units of the host
adaptor, and there is no reason this couldn't be done using ATAPI).

John.
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