From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] support SCSI disks
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 07:14:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041004051446.GA26900@openbios.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68697116-1564-11D9-8D2A-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org>
* Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> [041003 19:48]:
> A given SCSI device could be either a byte-oriented tape or a
> block-oriented disk. However, I do not believe that the ATA protocol
> allows you to read a single byte, so ATA tape drives must implement
> blocking in the hardware. In other words, it is not possible to have
> both block- and byte-oriented device nodes representing an ATA device.
> That is probably why I have never seen an IDE/ATA "tape" node in a
> device tree.
It can be used as a stream through the "deblocker" though.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-02 1:59 [ppc patch] support SCSI disks Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-03 9:21 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-03 17:48 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-03 18:10 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-03 18:41 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-03 19:09 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-04 5:14 ` Stefan Reinauer [this message]
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2004-10-03 23:06 Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-04 11:21 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06 3:31 ` Hollis Blanchard
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