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SubjectRe: Linux v2.5.43
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Shawn wrote:

> On 10/16, Bill Davidsen said something like:

> > I hope you haven't broken running WITH ide-scsi, because most people still
> > run 2.4 kernels in real life and only test 2.5 because someone has to do
> > it. Reconfiguring the system to use ide-scsi or not is just one more PITA
> > thing which needs to be done, or more likely forgotten, with every new
> > kernel.
>
> Honestly, I think it's ok to bust the old stuff if needed. This is
> simply my opinion from a user standpoint.
>
> It's really just one kernel argument or /etc/modules.conf modification
> to fix the old setup, asnd likely, if you set it up in the first place,
> you can un-set it up.

And change every script from dev=b,d,l to dev=/dev/cdN. Without hitting
the actual SCSI CD's, and of course the scd0 (ATAPI on ide-scsi) goes away
so you have to rename all of your real SCSI CD's.

On a simple system with one ATAPI CD the problem is small, but on a larger
and busier system with a fair number of CD-RW drives, it is likely to be a
real pain, and if you forget to convert back you mess up production stuff.

It's not impossible, just something I would rather not do unless the
system is going permanently to 2.6, maybe not even then, since what I have
works fine.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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