Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:36:30 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata vs atapicam ? Message-ID: <41AA7D1E.2090806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041129010130.GB8939@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20041129010130.GB8939@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > Question: Now that we can manage ATA devs via the CAM layer > [atapicam(4)], I would like to ask: what is the point > and benefit of doing so ? > > - aW > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ATA devices cannot be managed via CAM, only ATAPI devices. However, this is useful for the plethora of applications that want to talk to CDROMs via SCSI commands (and the MMC part of the ATAPI spec is just striped-down SCSI anyways). Scott
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