From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: Problems with IDE on linux 2.6.22.X Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:05:47 +0200 Message-ID: <46D7231B.3080807@gmail.com> References: <200708212149.12912.jopan@alumni.uv.es> <20070822162312.GG9412@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <46CC6A2F.5000406@gmail.com> <200708280044.34475.jopan@alumni.uv.es> <46D455DB.8000800@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:49456 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751035AbXH3ULs (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:11:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Pati=F1o_Andr=E9s?= , Lennart Sorensen , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 08/30/2007 09:31 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Aug 28 2007 19:05, Rene Herman wrote: >> Sheesh. How could anyone _not_ understand you need SCSI CD-ROM support >> for your IDE DVD-RW drive... > > Welcome to the wonderful world of SCSIfying ATA. (Don't talk about ATAPI, > USB/Firewire, it's a different matter.) Well -- the world where ATA, SCSI, USB, Firewire and what have you are low-level drivers to a unifying storage layer is under non too obscure definitions sort of not non-wonderful... Admittedly, the unifying layer is a little SCSI inspired but so is a lot of the hardware. As long as the users (the humans) resist SCSI inspiration, it should be safe. Rene