Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:00:57 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x |
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:12:42 -0500, Willem Riede wrote: >I know that many feel that ide-scsi is useless, and should go away. >And you are probably tired of message threads talking about it. >Yet I ask respectfully that you hear me out, and give me feedback. > >I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for >OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives ... >So can we agree to keep ide-scsi? I know it is not desired any >more for cd writers. To avoid the problem reports from people who >don't realize that and select ide-scsi anyway, we can refuse to >attach to a cd-type device (today it just warns). And/or make a >new explicit module parameter to tell ide-scsi exactly which >drives to attach to.
I have a simple patch to do exactly that. Contact me if you want it.
>Linus states in [7] that ide-scsi needs a maintainer. I haven't seen >anyone step forward, so that leads me to believe I may be the only >person that depends enough on ide-scsi to be motivated? > >If people will have me, I am prepared to take on that responsibility. >I am just concerned that I may not have enough of a variety of devices >to be able to thoroughly test it (unless the DI-30 is the only one :-)).
I use ide-scsi + st for my Seagate ATAPI tape drive, so I welcome your initiative. ide-tape has had many reliability problems in the 2.4 kernels, and the 2.5 bio changes left it broken from 2.5.12 or so to 2.6.0-test<late>. It may have been repaired lately, but I for one don't trust that code base any more.
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