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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:23:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject:   Re: ATAPI related patch ..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980223182308.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802232258.OAA00974@rah.star-gate.com>

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On 23-Feb-98 Amancio Hasty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the past we have supported reading Video CDs as well as audio CD via
> the low level scsi routines. So yes I can read audio off a cd via a low
> level ioctl call. I am not objecting to your comment just merely wish
> to express that there is already a precedence for doing i/o with ioctls.
> 
>       Amancio

If we actually do data I/O via IOCTL on SCSI, then this is broken as well. 
Especially in SCSI which has an abstraction layer already (sd, st, od, mt,
etc.).

Simon


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