From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: regression: ide-floppy doesn't work with IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:42:35 -0400 Message-ID: <45F8340B.5030401@garzik.org> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42470 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752633AbXCNRnI (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:43:08 -0400 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: Tejun Heo , Stanislav Brabec , albertl@mail.com, 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. ATAPI just passes through to SCSI. There is no limitation on the peripheral device types supported, except in the SCSI midlayer itself. Some rare ATAPI devices are even pure SCSI bridges, allowing you to hook up any SCSI-2 device to the bridge, and in turn, to any ATA/ATAPI controller. Jeff