On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I wouldn't expect it to. Most people use ATA for that, and it tends to > have lower limits than most SCSI HBA's (well, at least the old PATA), so > the change - if any - should at most change some of the sg.c limits to be > no less than what SG_IO has had on ATA forever. > > Not that I expect people to have a SCSI CD/DVD drive anyway in this day > and age, so the sg.c changes probably won't show up at all. My wife's last two laptops have both had 'SCSI' CD/DVD -- firewire on the Vaio and SATA on the Lifebook. Neither time have distros been prepared to deal with such things ;-( http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9038 shows it's not just my distro of choice that has problems with SATA ATAPI. Unfortunately, the one-line change to enable that by default was too late for 2.6.16, according to jgarzik. I just hope all the distros patch it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
