Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix dependeces for CONFIG_USB_STORAGE | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:00:21 +0200 |
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> > Huh, why? > > This HELP (taken from linux/drivers/scsi/Kconfig) is quite explicit: > > config BLK_DEV_SD > tristate "SCSI disk support" > depends on SCSI > ---help--- > If you want to use SCSI hard disks, Fibre Channel disks, > USB storage or the SCSI or parallel port version of > the IOMEGA ZIP drive, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO, > the Disk-HOWTO and the Multi-Disk-HOWTO, available from > <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. This is NOT for SCSI > CD-ROMs. > > So if you want to use USB Mass Storage devices (that use SCSI emulation) you > need also SCSI disk support (I have realized it when I've tried to mount > one those USB devices, without success).
The help text is misleading. You need SD to mount disks. There are other devices which are not disks. In fact there are USB<->SCSI bridges, so you could do everything SCSI can do, eg. attach an old scanner which needs only SG.
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