Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> >> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >> >Wrong impression. ;)
> >> >Hint: look for STANDARD_ATAPI macro usage.
> >>
> >>       It looks like that macro should be renamed to something like
> >> STANDARD_MMC.  Everything that that macro controls still appears to
> >> go through ATA Packet Interface encapsulation.  Those quirks look like
> >
> >Please verify against sff8020.
>
> 	I don't know what you mean by this.  It's not a question of
> whether the behavior being accomodated is conformant or nonconformant
> to a standard.  The question is whether the accomodations controlled
> by the "STANDARD_ATAPI" macro can easily be implemented in sr_mod.
> Since the accomodations are translating a couple of numbers that
> are repeseneted as binary coded decimal instead of integers (0-255)
> on some drives, and sending a slightly different SCSI command to
> change discs on a Sanyo three CD changer, it seems that they can easily
> be implemented in sr_mod.

I agree with this, I was rather thinking of checking whole ide-cd
behaviour against spec to see if there are any more serious problems
(and I've heard about some, raising DRQ too soon or sth like that (?)).

> >> they would likely be duplicated in a SCSI version of the same drives
> >> anyhow.  It should be easy to have sr_mod accomodate those drives.
> >
> >I can't find them, there are some in sr_vendor.c but they are diffirent
>
> 	From you email address, I would guess that English is not your
> first language.  While you do write English very well, I think you made

Very funny... ;-)
btw. reading is really easy, writing is a bit harder, read below.

> a mistake in understanding what I siad.  "It should be easy to
> have sr_mod accomodate those drives" means that it would be easy for

I made a mistake of not explicitly writing what I think.

> someone to write code in the near future to do this (that is, to change
> sr_mod.c).  It does not mean that it has already been done.

I understood this w/o problems.
But do you understand that in might be not possible to move ide-cd
completly to sr?

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