From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 1 12:20:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA22023 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA21984; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA08482; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:18:44 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA24266; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:18:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA00384; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:12:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199701012012.VAA00384@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI Zip Drive To: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:12:37 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612312251.JAA15714@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 1, 97 09:51:01 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > >In the long run, i would see all removable disks go to `od'. We could > >then continue to improve the `sd' driver for fixed media devices. > > `od' is an odd name for a removable scsi disk driver. Yes, but we can already consider it ``historical practice'' by now. :) Basically, as it stands now, it's just that: a removable disk driver, with an ioctl interface e.g. to eject a disk. I will also look again into the SCSI-2 specs re: Peter's argumentation about optical device specific commands. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)