Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:12:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI Zip Drive Message-ID: <199701012012.VAA00384@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612312251.JAA15714@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 1, 97 09:51:01 am"
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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. ;-)
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