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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:55:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith)
Cc:        thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI-over-* hacks
Message-ID:  <200103212055.VAA91416@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200103212031.f2LKVGh01261@mass.dis.org> from Mike Smith at "Mar 21, 2001 12:31:16 pm"

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It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > > It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao
> > > with my ATAPI CD drive. An alternative solution would be to implement
> > > an atapi-cd ioctl to send a raw command to an ATAPI device, and make
> > > libscg use that.
> > 
> > Exactly, I coule dream up an API for that shoving ATAPI commands into
> > the ATA driver, that would make at least some sense...
> 
> As long as you can make it work for ATA commands as well, this would let 
> us port/whatever the 'hdparm' tool as well, which would make a lot of 
> people happy.

What does hdparm do ? set modes and stuff right ? thats atacontrols
job. I'll think up an API for getting ATAPI commands through, thats
actually quite easy, we just have to get it right first time...

-Søren

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