Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:23:37 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup |
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Użytkownik Eduard Bloch napisał: > Why not another way round? Just make the ide-scsi driver be prefered, > and hack ide-scsi a bit to simulate the cdrom and adv.floppy devices > that are expected as /dev/hd* by some user's configuration?
This is the intention.
> > To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost > completely replaced with ide-scsi? I know about only few cdrom devices > that are broken (== not ATAPI compliant) but can be used with > workarounds in the current ide-cd driver. OTOH many users do already > need ide-scsi to access cd recorders and similar hardware, so they would > benefit much more from having ide-scsi as default than few users of > broken "atapi" drives. > > Other operating systems did switch to constitent (scsi-based) way of > accessing all kinds of removable media drivers. Why does Linux have to > keep a kludge, written years ago without having a good concept? > > Gruss/Regards, > Eduard.
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