From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 23 18:16:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16054 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:16:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA16002 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 22707 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 1998 02:23:08 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802232258.OAA00974@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Amancio Hasty Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker , Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Feb-98 Amancio Hasty wrote: > Hi, > > In the past we have supported reading Video CDs as well as audio CD via > the low level scsi routines. So yes I can read audio off a cd via a low > level ioctl call. I am not objecting to your comment just merely wish > to express that there is already a precedence for doing i/o with ioctls. > > Amancio If we actually do data I/O via IOCTL on SCSI, then this is broken as well. Especially in SCSI which has an abstraction layer already (sd, st, od, mt, etc.). Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message