Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)



On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> > And you know what? I really don't give a flying <fornicate> in a rolling donut
> > what FreeBSD calls the device. If I did, I'd have installed FreeBSD. But I
>
> It has been mentioned here many times, you only need to read it.
>
> FreeBSD comes with a T-10 (SCSI) compliant CAM interface that uses a multiplex
> device and dev=b,t,l to address the devices. This is true for _all_ kind of
> SCSI devices and thus includes ATAPI transport.

Is CAM relevant at all for ATAPI, USB, IEEE1394, parport and other
transports? Where is the link between ATAPI's SCSI/MMC command set and
SCSI CAM standard applying to ATAPI devices? (File name of the standard
or latest draft and chapter is sufficient.)

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Matthias Andree
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