Messages in this thread | | | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:57:19 -0500 |
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> I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for > OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives > exist in SCSI, ATAPI, USB and IEEE1394 versions.
> One high-level driver, osst, handles all of them, and that's how > it should be, right? For ATAPI, it relies on ide-scsi. > > (By the way, ide-tape contains code for the ATAPI version, the > DI-30, but that code is old and has serveral known problems - > I'd like to see it removed - or at least deprecated - I will do > that myself later if people want me to.)
Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis. Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too ugly to live for sure.
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