Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:25:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI support Message-ID: <200107121825.f6CIPNd00923@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:13:41 %2B0200." <20010712121341.D22288@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> > We support ATAPI devices and has been for a long time (also CD burner=
s)...
> =
> I believe I forgot to do a group reply on my previous reply
> to S=F8ren.
> =
> OK, it seems a misunderstanding of the term ATAPI.
> The author of cdrecord, Joerg Schilling, told me - I will translate:
> =
> Citation:
> =
> "You havn't understood what ATAPI is!
Schilly has some funny ideas about what ATAPI is as well.
> ATAPI *is* SCSI over IDE transport. Thus a SCSI system has to have
> a hostadapter driver for the IDE bus.
There's no "has to" about it. And this isn't entirely correct either; =
one needs to read the relevant SFF802x specifications, particularly the =
parts where they state their intention to deviate further from SCSI in =
the future.
> *All* OSs despite FreeBSD do that right. Under Linux unfortunately
> it isn't the default."
He's entitled to his opinion; don't mistake it for fact.
-- =
=2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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