Devices not supporting read-6....

[Alan Cox]

> Either we should *always* send IDE commands through the SCSI subsystem
> (effectively treating IDE as a form of SCSI; I believe NT does this)
> or I'd like to see a way to issue generic ATAPI commands --
> preferrably via a "generic ATAPI device" analogous to what SCSI has
> (and parport IDE, I belive) -- i.e. /dev/hg0 et al -- or via an
> ioctl().

>From what I understand of ATA-66 this is needed to get the fancier features
the disks will at least notionally be supporting.

> There probably also should be an ioctl() for the cooked SCSI and IDE
> devices to find the equivalent generic device.

Good point


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