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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Zinx Verituse <zinx@epicsol.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sg-style ATAPI commands in 2.6
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:06:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031002070640.GE6678@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031002065218.GA32246@bliss>

On Thu, Oct 02 2003, Zinx Verituse wrote:
> I haven't found much information on the raw ATAPI command
> interface provided in Linux 2.6, but from what I can tell
> it can understand the sg3 interface.
> 
> However, I can't open the device read-write, so mmap'd IO
> is impossible, and unless it's currently horribly insecure,
> I can't write CDs anyway.
> 
> I was just wondering what the desired behavior is, if there's
> a different style interface I'm supposed to use, etc.

Right now, only the SG_IO ioctl is supported. Support for full (as much
as makes sense) sg v3 support is planned and in progress.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-02  6:52 sg-style ATAPI commands in 2.6 Zinx Verituse
2003-10-02  7:06 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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