Re: [IDE] trying to make MO drive work with ide-floppy/ide-cd

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, May 07 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The below patch allows me to use the ATAPI MO drive read-only using 
> ide-cd. It does not send the drive any commands it might not understand.
> I'm still trying to get write support to work, but being able to read
> from the drive is an independent feature and useful in itself, I think.
> Would it be possible to apply this to 2.5?
> 
> Tested by reading an entire ext2 filesystem from an MO disk and comparing
> against the result obtained from 2.4 with ide-scsi/sd. No differences.

Definitely, this looks like a fine start. As far as I'm concerned, it
would be fine to commit to 2.5.

-- 
Jens Axboe