All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Daniela Engert <dani@ngrt.de>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: rewrite SCSI host scheme to be one per ATA host
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:37:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240414622.3431.14.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422161856.1251f8a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:18 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Don't forget, there are ATAPI devices (some Sony CD burners and old 
> > phase-changers come into mind) which *do* have multiple LUNs sitting 
> > beyond the PATA port. I don't know if libata supports such setups (my 
> > old OS/2 driver does) but one shouldn't hijack LUNs to emulate targets.
> 
> It's a long time ago since I tested it but my 5 CD changer was correctly
> supported by libata (or more accurately by sr...).

Well, sr supports the discovered CD/DVD; ch is the actual changer
manager.  Usually ch attaches to one LUN and sr attaches to another.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-22  9:09 [PATCH] libata: rewrite SCSI host scheme to be one per ATA host Jeff Garzik
2009-04-22  9:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-22 12:16   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-04-22 15:10     ` Daniela Engert
2009-04-22 15:18       ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22 15:37         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2009-04-22 16:27           ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22 18:36           ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-22 19:27             ` James Bottomley
2009-04-22 16:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-23  6:35   ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-23 10:39     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-23 10:43       ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-22 13:09 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-22 16:52   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-22 19:08 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-23 11:00   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-23 17:59     ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-23 18:09       ` James Bottomley
2009-04-24 11:00   ` Stefan Richter

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1240414622.3431.14.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com \
    --to=james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=bharrosh@panasas.com \
    --cc=dani@ngrt.de \
    --cc=htejun@gmail.com \
    --cc=jeff@garzik.org \
    --cc=jens.axboe@oracle.com \
    --cc=linux-ide@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.