Gene Heskett wrote:
I doubt libata has that capability now, or ever will, cuz these ide/atapi devices are generally dumber than rocks about that. But any device claiming to be scsi-II is supposed to be able to do those sorts of things while the cpu is off crunching numbers for BOINC or whatever.
.. The CD/DVD drives all all "MMC" devices internally, which means they speak a SCSI command protocol. Regardless of the electrical or optical interface. Linux is software, and the software protocol is exactly the same for them, no matter what the cable/bus type happens to be. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
