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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: In-kernel ioctl calls
In-Reply-To: <003f01c00245$eddc2340$19e55982@student.utwente.nl> from Theo van Klaveren at "Aug 9, 2000 11:08:12 pm"
To: t.vanklaveren@student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:48:50 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote:
> | Here's another idea, the ata driver can read/write 2352 sector size
> | blocks directly, no need to use that ugly ioctl. You just have to
> | set the right blocksize, I could provide you with a function for
> | that, no more ioctl mess ;)
> 
> That would be _greatly_ appreciated! The question is, would this be
> 'portable' to other drivers? In other words, how much trouble would it cost
> me to get AudioFS to work with SCSI?

I dont think the SCSI/CAM system can cope with != %  512 byte blocks, so
you are out of luck there, but then again SCSI/CAM doesnt support 
CDIOCREADAUDIO either, so you are not worse of than now :)

-Søren


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