Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:52:16 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ide-scsi oops was: 2.6.0-test4-mm3 |
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On Thu, Sep 11 2003, Gerhard Mack wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > > That's a real shame ... it seemed to work fine until recently. Some > > > of the DVD writers (eg the one I have - Sony DRU500A or whatever) > > > > Then maybe it would be a really good idea to find out why it doesn't > > work with ide-cd. What are the symptoms? > > > > > need it. Is it unfixable? or just nobody's done it? > > > > It's not unfixable, there's just not a lot of motivation to fix it since > > it's basically dead. > > > > What about backwards compatability with all of that cd burning software > out there that only knows to scan the SCSI devices?
That's basically impossible, I don't want to shoe horn atapi numbering into faked bus,id,lun type things.
So people will just have to get used to the change. And I bet that Joe user with his cd-r thinks it's a lot more intuitive to use dev=/dev/hdc (which is his burner) rather than dev=1,0,0 for instance. The scanning basically helps that case alone, because noone can guess these numbers.
-- Jens Axboe
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