Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:41:36 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. Message-ID: <XFMail.980224114136.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199802240401.UAA14922@rah.star-gate.com>
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On 24-Feb-98 Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Not really and I have been able to watch movies as well as extract audio > tracks. Can I do it from a scsi tape drive? Nope. > > It appears that you are not familiar with our low level scsi interface. True, but I am rather familiar with Unix I/O semantics. One does data I/O via read(2) and write(2) system calls. The IOCTL system call was a hack to allow you to send control messages to the driver. The whole purpose of the Unix symetrical I/O is to abstract devices into file I/O semantics. I belive you wantch movies and play music, etc. That does not make the interface semantically correct. Does it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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