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From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>
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Subject: Re: [ppc patch] support SCSI disks
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* 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