Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: Floppy handling

# Re: Floppy handling

ferret@phonewave.net
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:

> 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.

Observing the machines we put together where I work, it appears that
windows 98 uses its SCSI layer with ATAPI-mode devices. It uses IDE-mode
for hard drives unless one installs the chipset vendor's driver.

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