ATAPI does support eject - otherwise you wouldn't be able to do so programatically :) The main difference is theading support. This is a performance issue more than anything. To give you an idea, most hard drives use the exact same hardware for both SCSI and IDE. The only difference is the controller chip - and price :( The SCSI interface allows multiple concurrent accesses at the same time - and I do believe that ATAPI/IDE does it on a one-by-one basis, round-robbin if you will. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Fandre" <clay at fandre.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] settings for a CD-RW > Michael Bresnahan wrote: > > > > Can someone help out a newbie here and explain to me (or point me to some > > info) why you need "SCSI emulation" for a (presumably) IDE CDROM drive > > > > It's because IDE/ATAPI is a really simple protocol and doesn't support > all the commands that SCSI does (like eject) which the cd-writer needs. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >