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Date:      Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:49:55 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?
Message-ID:  <20061229164955.GA82150@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4594C099.9040307@pooker.samsco.org>
References:  <20061221092717.A6431@xorpc.icir.org> <20061222073857.GA10704@tmn.ru> <20061225165735.M22401@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <458FF48A.3010802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20061228222306.GB836@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4594C099.9040307@pooker.samsco.org>

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On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:15:37AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Did you know that ATAPI is actually just the SCSI command set that is
> merely encapsulated into the IDE wire protocol?

This is something Linux has done (you can still use the direct ATA
and IDE subsystems if you want, but in most major distros I've seen
as of late, they use a SCSI-to-ATA conversion layer).

Thus: why haven't we moved the front-end to the ATA subsystem into
atapicam(4) then?  Is it just the amount of work involved, or are
there technical reasons?

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