Re: ide-scsi oops was: 2.6.0-test4-mm3

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> I have another oops for you with 2.6.0-test4-mm3-1 and ide-scsi. 
> > 
> > ide-scsi is a dead duck.  defunct.  kaput.  Don't use it.  It's only being
> > kept around for weirdo things like IDE-based tape drives, scanners, etc.
> > 
> > Just use /dev/hdX directly.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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