On Sep 1, Geoff Wing wrote
> Ummm, yeah, interesting.  wd3 is the cdrom.  I haven't tried making
> /dev/{r,}wd3* and doing stuff with it yet :-)

Could work ... Atapi devices are expected to answer to some ATA commands
so that they can be used by bioses, among other things.
I need to prevent drive probing on slots known to hold an ATAPI device.
I'll look at this.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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