On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> This is my idea too: CD-ROM drives should be accessed via ATAPI or
> handled as ATA disk.
Handling them as an ATA disk will eat you up at some extent - whilst you
can't change an ATA disk on runtime (well, not easily, at least), you must
be able to change the CD in your non-ATAPI CD-ROM. If we handle it as an
ATA disk, we'll lead into trouble. Non-ATAPI CD-ROMs aren't ATA hard
disks.
Regards,
Thunder
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