From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [Bug 7026] CD/DVD burning with USB writer doesn't work Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:38:49 -0500 Message-ID: <45770E39.9070007@torque.net> References: <1165423635.2810.33.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <4577029f./DIiz5nuoOKd82Zo%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <1165427946.2810.46.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53089 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937086AbWLFSjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:39:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1165427946.2810.46.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Joerg Schilling , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dgilbert@interlog.com James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:49 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Please keep in mind: all CD/DVD burners are SCSI devices. > > This is probably semantics, but nowadays, SCSI means SPI (or parallel > SCSI). I think you're trying to say that they're all devices that obey > the MMC standard? Which is true, but not really relevant. James, SPI is dead. Get used to it. SCSI has not meant SPI for years. We should be in the business of disabusing people of that idea, not reinforcing it. If you went to www.t10.org and looked at draft documents and the reflector you would be lucky to find any documents or posts about SPI in the last two years. Doug Gilbert