[8662] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: O_NONBLOCK for SCSI removable disks and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cefiar)
Tue Apr 18 10:16:01 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:49:41 +1000
To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Cefiar <cefiar1@optushome.com.au>
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At 03:05 AM 18/04/00 -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>STILL TO DO: IDE disks and "floppies". Although the IDE CD-ROM driver
>handles O_NONBLOCK, I'm fairly sure that IDE floppy driver doesn't.
>And I can't figure out whether IDE disks _need_ to support it ... are
>all removables, no matter how large, "floppies" in the IDE world? Hm.
There are already IDE hot-swap removable bays on the market, so I can see
this being a necessity. Could be very useful for IDE based software RAID
arrays.
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