From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: regression: ide-floppy doesn't work with IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:48:03 +0900 Message-ID: <45F7FD13.2070907@gmail.com> References: <45F7DA2B0200002D0001585E@emea5-mh.id5.novell.com> <45F7E34B.6020206@gmail.com> <45F7F90B.6070709@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:36258 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965424AbXCNNsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:48:10 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so99558nze for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:48:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45F7F90B.6070709@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Stanislav Brabec , albertl@mail.com, jeff@garzik.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paul@paulbristow.net, chrubis@suse.cz, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun wrote: >> If that's the case, libata should work too as long as the HSM problem is >> fixed. > > Really? I didn't notice when libata gained ATAPI-disk support. > > Are you *sure* about that?? Not sure sure but almost sure. :-) What ide-scsi does is borrowing SCSI mid and high level drivers while using ide as SCSI low level driver. To SCSI, libata and ide-scsi aren't very different except that libata also exports SBC device to it. So, if SCSI could handle ATAPI disk via ide-scsi, I don't think there is any reason it can't with libata. Thanks. -- tejun