I'm talking specifically about ATAPI devices here. As we have already
covered, not all ATA devices are ATAPI, but unless I'm completely off
the wall, ATAPI is SCSI over IDE, and should be able to be driven as
such. The lack of access to that interface using the established
interface mechanisms just bites.
You fund it!
Other people did not even think about the problem, or even lack the
needed knowledge.
Alan Cox is one of the latter ones :-( he only tries to avoid needed
changes ithout any technical reason.
If you have a IDE based CD-ROM drive that does not support ATAPI,
why not handle it the only way it makes sense?
Such a drive is no more than a read-only hard disk and may be accessed
via the HD IDE read interface. You will never be able to use it
to e.g. rip audio data off it.
If there really is a poor school that cannot afford to buy a modern
20-30 Euro CD-ROM drive, then this school can liveas long as they
are able to install the OS from the old (1992) CD-ROM they currently own.
Jörg
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