[CentOS] Why new "SCSI" devices in 4.5 kernel?
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feizhou at graffiti.netMon May 21 03:06:05 UTC 2007
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John R Pierce wrote: > Steve Snyder wrote: >> It occurs to me that maybe CentOS 4.5 wants to handle my CD-ROM as a >> SCSI device. Is that done with plain old CD readers? This Sanyo >> CRD-S372B is far to old to actually write CDs and would probably burst >> into flames if I put a DVD disk into it. >> > > > I can't answer the 4.5 specific aspect, but in fact all ATAPI devices > (CDs,, etc) attached to ATA/IDE use the SCSI command set, unlike IDE/ATA > hard disks, which use the old WDC1003 'commands'. I think it is because we have a newer libata and are now using the drivers from libata by default instead of the 'old' ide drivers.
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