From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265847AbUHBOgq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266543AbUHBOgp (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:36:45 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:39401 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266554AbUHBOeI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:34:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:33:31 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Andreas Metzler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide-cd problems Message-ID: <20040802143330.GY10496@suse.de> References: <20040730193651.GA25616@bliss> <20040801155753.GA13702@suse.de> <200408020945.05297.tabris@tabris.net> <20040802135615.GX10496@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 02 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > [...] > > just says that open-by-device name is unintentional, it doesn't give you > > warnings on the transport. > > > > So in short (and repeating): don't use ATAPI (CDROM_SEND_PACKET), it > > sucks. Use SG_IO (which means using open-by-device, which works at least > > as well as the stupid faked ATAPI bus/id/lun crap and has the much > > better transport). Don't compare apples and oranges. > > FWIW cdrecord's author prefers dev=ATA:x,y,z, which uses SG_IO *and* gets > rid of the open-by-device-warning. (don't trim linux-kernel cc lists!) Well good for him, that's why he didn't drop that idiotic warning. I think the x,y,z naming for ATAPI devices is utter stupidity. -- Jens Axboe