From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Mar 26 23:43:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA03479 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03442 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA12452 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:43:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA29385 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:43:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id IAA19213 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:17:02 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603270717.IAA19213@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: HP 4020i CD-R wishes To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:17:01 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603270150.UAA04383@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Mar 26, 96 08:50:01 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 Peter Dufault wrote: > Do you want to be able to say "the worm uses this style write" and > use the same code in use in the tape writer? Then I think we tidy > up and formalize the libraries already started so that if you use > the same type of write for a tape and a recorder you don't have > the replicated code. This has some merits, but i figure there are more urging problems to fix in the SCSI code, right? (My original layering argument wasn't very well-thought. Stacking the ioctl requests would most likely suffice.) -- 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. ;-)