Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.43 | Date | 19 Oct 2002 17:43:14 GMT |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1021018152918.23760A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>,
I'm happy to report that ide-scsi is still working fine, both for CD, CD-RW and ZIP drives. Which makes life nice on a system with both ATAPI and SCSI CD devices, since my scripts need only get the bus and id, not use another device name format.
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: | 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. | | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |
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