From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CD writing - related question
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:40:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E2602C.2090008@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060201210433.GC8552@ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 30-01-06 18:30:29, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>>Please take this as a question to elicit information, not
>>an invitation for argument.
>>
>>In Linux currently:
>> SCSI - liiks like SCSI
>> USB - looks like SCSI
>> Firewaire - looks like SCSI
>> SATA - looks like SCSI
>> Compact flash and similar - looks like SCSI
>
>
> Your definition of "looks like scsi" is way too broad. CF looks like
> PCMCIA and that in turn is ide chip on isa-like bus.
>
> (unless you plug it to usb reader)
>
I was unaware of any serious use of PCMCIA reader cards therese days, as
you note the CD shows up as an sd device. I have a laptop which might
have a card slot, if it takes CD I'll pull one from my camera and try it
there instead of the USB reader.
The question is still why not make all devices look like SCSI, and use
one set of drivers and a bit of glue. Redhat used to use ide-scsi by
default if my memory serves, and the overhead wasn't an issue even back
on my 1st Linux laptop running Slackware on a Thinkpad 486-25 (the fat
one, not the 486-16 -;).
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 23:30 CD writing - related question Bill Davidsen
2006-02-01 21:04 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-02 16:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-02 19:40 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-02-02 20:19 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-03 2:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-02 20:39 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-02 21:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-02 20:35 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-07 9:22 ` Matt Keenan
2006-02-07 11:04 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-02-07 13:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-07 13:40 ` Jens Axboe
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