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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Don't know whether Jens really wants to bend ide-cd.c until
> it also handles disks, but it smells like a hack.

Is Jeff Garzik's libata ever going to support parallel ATA? If so, 
doesn't that handle this situation nicely, given that the SCSI sd module 
should already know how to handle SCSI MO drives?