Re: [PATCH] make ide-cd handle non-2kB sector sizes

Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-23T19:56:39Z

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> So that's just opposite to what ide-cd does, but I think ide-cd should be
> limited to CD-like devices with their all properties (oddities).

When I brought up the issue a few months back, the consensus was to
use ide-cd, not ide-floppy.

> Specifically you can do random writes to an MO disk, perhaps even format
> it, which is usually not the case with CDs.

ide-cd also handles DVD-RAM, which can also handle random writes.

> BTW, what does ide-scsi say of the device type for the MO: is it "CD-ROM"
> or "Direct-Access" or anything else? I used an MO drive (a SCSI one --
> nobody was crazy enough to think of an ATAPI interface for that kinds of
> devices at that time) for a short while under Linux once and it used to be
> the latter, with sd, not sr being the appropriate driver.

On 2.4:

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M25-MCC3064AP Rev: 0051
Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02

And yes, this uses the sd driver.

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Ciao,
Pascal