On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:29:12 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: > > > >> Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? > > > >That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. > > > >libata-pata does require SCSI ... > > And in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used by ATA > should be factored out so that SCSI really is SCSI again, and not > "Common layer for SCSI, SATA and PATA" or so. The common layer for the queueing is one thing, but the ATAPI devices (CD-ROM etc) are SCSI commands over an ATA bus. A subset of SCSI commands badly over an ATA bus but SCSI commands nevertheless - so they have the same basic dependancies as USB storage does. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
