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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5-bkcvs] capability flag for ATAPI MO drives
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:45:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602104512.GF9561@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305291545220.8842-100000@neptune.local>

On Thu, May 29 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Now that ide-cd in 2.5 deals with ATAPI MO drivers, I think there
> should be a configuration/capability flag to identify the drive
> as an MO drive. This will be needed for later write support so that
> drivers/cdrom.c can tell that this drive is capable of writing.
> 
> Please apply and/or comment.
> 
> Jens, how will ide-cd.c/cdrom.c fly with sector sizes of 512 or
> 1024 bytes? There are MO disks with those sector sizes. I only have
> 640 MB disks with 2048 byte sector size, so I can't test.

It probably wont. I'd be reluctant to actually allow that without
someone doing the footwork of making sure it generally works. I'm not
sure it does.

Patch looks fine, btw.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 13:52 [PATCH 2.5-bkcvs] capability flag for ATAPI MO drives Pascal Schmidt
2003-06-02 10:45 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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     [not found] ` <20030602105009$4590@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-02 13:24   ` Pascal Schmidt

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