Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:56:21 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt |
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Quote from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed there > was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because of a broken > interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted to touch SCSI > devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't really worth it.
Hmmm, but ide-scsi is used for a lot more than cd recorders these days. Alan mentioned 'crazy' SATA devices back in April.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105000779411632&w=2
(Not that I'm suggesting that it is particularly sane to deal with an SATA connected printer by presenting it as a SCSI device, but I just can't see how ide-scsi could successfully be removed now :-( )
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