Re: ATAPI cdrecord issue 2.5.67

[John Bradford]

> 
> Alan Cox writes:
>  > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  > > I think ide-scsi needs to be supported for some time going forward.
>  > > After all, cdrecord, cdrdao, dvdrecord aren't going to be the only
>  > > applications.
>  > 
>  > And far longer than that. People seem to be testing and demoing 
>  > crazy things like SATA attached scanners, printers and even enclosure
>  > services.
> 
> ATAPI tape drives will need ide-scsi too, unless ide-tape somehow
> got repaired lately. And some people already use ide-scsi+st in
> 2.4 since ide-tape doesn't always work reliably.
> 
> ide-scsi isn't just for CD/DVD writers.

How long will it be before somebody develops an ATAPI, SCSI host
adaptor, I.E. a SCSI host adaptor which appears as an ATAPI device?

(I know that ATAPI really is effectively just a SCSI transport, but
you can already get SCSI, SCSI host adaptors, I.E. where the devices
on the second-level adaptor appear as the logical units of the host
adaptor, and there is no reason this couldn't be done using ATAPI).

John.