Re: Floppy handling
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 14:36:33 +0200
On Fri, Jun 09 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Polling isn't so bad, however, it really bothers me that this is
> > > CDROM-specific. We need a way to send packets to any device.
> >
> > ide-floppy could be easily modified to support this.
> >
>
> It would be better if it was generic, so all devices could do it. It
> would be even better if we simply ditched all IDE drivers except
> IDE-disk and IDE-SCSI so we don't have to deal with inconsistencies
> between IDE and SCSI either...
I agree. Most recent ATA harddrives are ATAPI anyway, so even those
could be managed by sd.
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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