Messages in this thread | | | From | "D. Hazelton" <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:40:29 -0500 |
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On Monday 20 February 2006 11:41, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: > > > Part of the problem is Jörg's expecting a solution the day before > > > yesterday. > > > > Well, from some comments he made in private mails he seems to think he > > was promised (by Linus, no less) that the DMA problems in ide-scsi were > > going to be fixed. Instead the module was deprecated and SG_IO was > > introduced - this seems to be one of the things he's been angry about. > > Even you have become a victim of the trolls :-(
Never a victim. I stick my nose where I choose - in this case I stuck it in here because I had hoped to turn a discussion I saw descending into a flamewar into something productive.
> SG_IO was used in ide-scsi a long time before it was needlessly introduced > on top of /dev/hd*
Needlessly? Not true. It was missing from the layer, as all modern ATA devices do support some form of ATAPI, which is, as you've so frequently pointed out, a form of SCSI. So why is an unneeded thing to introduce the ability to use that full capacity?
And here I must parrot Martin Mares - you complain about problems when not using ide-scsi but almost all the bugs you've mentioned only occur when using ide-scsi. Now, I'll go and finish replying to all the other mails that have come into my inbox (on this thread) and not been sorted down because they were directly to me.
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