Re: Devices not supporting read-6....

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:50:23 +0100


On Sun, Jan 23 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > is fine. ide-cd.* could be thrown out. The only problem I see with
> > that is the loss of drive work-arounds for not quite compatible
> > hardware.
>
> Is that really problem? We already have blacklists for broken SCSI
> hardware... [I do not know much about atapi/scsi subsystem...]

Not really a big problem, but an ugly one. If you look at the
various #ifdef in ide-cd you can get a clearer picture of
the problem.

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk

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