Re: DIOC{G,S}STRATEGY not implemented for all disk devices

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Jun 8,  4:55am, Alan Barrett wrote:
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} Why don't the DIOC{G,S}STRATEGY ioctls work for all disk devices?

     When you include all disk devices, are you including floppies?

} There seem to be several almost-identical implementations, in
} sys/dev/dksubr.c, sys/dev/ld.c, and sys/dev/ata/wd.c; an implementation
} in sys/dev/scsipi/cd.c that always returns EIO; and implementations in

     I'm not sure it makes sense for cd.c since that is a read-only
device and isn't truely random access.

}-- End of excerpt from Alan Barrett