On May 14 2007 19:46, Alan Cox 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. Hm yes of course, but harddisks themselves do not normally need ATAPI; so it would be cool to be capable of throwing it out for PATA-and-no-CDROM boxes. Jan -- - 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
