On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:29:12 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

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> 
> On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> >> Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it?
> >
> >That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list.
> >
> >libata-pata does require SCSI ...
> 
> And in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used by ATA
> should be factored out so that SCSI really is SCSI again, and not
> "Common layer for SCSI, SATA and PATA" or so.

The common layer for the queueing is one thing, but the ATAPI devices
(CD-ROM etc) are SCSI commands over an ATA bus. A subset of SCSI commands
badly over an ATA bus but SCSI commands nevertheless - so they have the
same basic dependancies as USB storage does.

Alan
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