From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: rewrite SCSI host scheme to be one per ATA host Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20090422161856.1251f8a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20090422090929.GA14928@havoc.gtf.org> <49EEE225.3010700@garzik.org> <49EF0A92.1070400@panasas.com> <49EF337F.1030804@ngrt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:47902 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751498AbZDVP3h (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:29:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49EF337F.1030804@ngrt.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Daniela Engert Cc: Boaz Harrosh , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Jens Axboe , Tejun Heo > 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...).