Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: DVD-RAM-Support in 2.3???

# Re: DVD-RAM-Support in 2.3???

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:01:12 +0200

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On Thu, Aug 26 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Linus,
>
> DVD-RAM support is still a problem. I have a patch that makes selected
> drives that pretend to be a CDROM drive also show up as an optical
> device. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this better than my
> patch?

What we need is proper packet writing.

> My patch adds another flag to the "list formerly known as blacklist"
> that tells the kernel to view the drive both as a removeable disk, and
> a CDROM drive. Some drives present themselves as a CDROM and a
> removable optical drive at two different LUNs. Now we do this in
> software.
>
> IMHO, the SCD driver should eventually be discarded and integrated
> into the SD driver (A CD is simply a readonly, removable disk with
> audio capabilities). However, this is a major undertaking, for which I
> simply don't have the time.

I just don't think that this is the right approach, there are
bigger differences than that.

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