Re: ata vs atapicam ?

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/29/04

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To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>

    Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > Question: Now that we can manage ATA devs via the CAM layer
    > [atapicam(4)], I would like to ask: what is the point
    > and benefit of doing so ?
    >
    > - aW
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    ATA devices cannot be managed via CAM, only ATAPI devices. However,
    this is useful for the plethora of applications that want to talk to
    CDROMs via SCSI commands (and the MMC part of the ATAPI spec is just
    striped-down SCSI anyways).

    Scott
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