Re: [IDE] trying to make MO drive work with ide-floppy/ide-cd

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 6 May 2003 16:11:53 +0200


On Tue, May 06 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
>
> > I'll check if reading from the MO drive works with ide-cd under 2.4
> > as well. If it does: what about a patch that makes ATAPI MO drives
> > and CD writers behave the same on 2.4: read-only with native ide drivers,
> > read-write with ide-scsi?
>
> I can now confirm that using the MO drive read-only with 2.4 and ide-cd
> also works fine.
>
> Could we please have this patch included in the 2.4 IDE code to make
> MO drives and CD writers behave the same?

Not until you fix ide-cd to correctly identify it. This half-assed
solution wont do.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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