Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:07:28 -0500 | From | Willem Riede <> | Subject | Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x |
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On 2003.12.28 23:57, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > 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.
I would agree, but would that get any people in trouble? That is, are there any IDE tape drives currently supported by ide-tape, that are not compatble with ide-scsi plus st?
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