Re: AfterStep

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:51:03 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Markus Illenseer <markus%core.de@localhost> wrote:

 > > Hm, that application should probably use the CDIO* ioctls so that it works
 > > with ATAPI and Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.  Seems silly to limit it to SCSI.
 > 
 >  Actually it already does so. The includes were joined together into
 > scsipi - the API for SCSI and ATAPI. 
 > 
 >  I should ask Manuel Bouyer about that issue in the includes though.

Nonono...

It shouldn't include scsipi headers, either.  The "SCSI" commands for ATAPI
are different for some CD operations.

If the applications instead uses <sys/cdio.h> and the CDIO* ioctls,
then all differences will be handled by the kernel.

There's also the issue of Mitsumi (mcd) CD-ROMs; they're neither
SCSI nor ATAPI, but there's no reason that ascd shouldn't work with
them.

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