From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267529AbUHEBAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:00:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267530AbUHEBAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:00:03 -0400 Received: from avalon.servus.at ([193.170.194.18]:10373 "EHLO wildsau.enemy.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267529AbUHEA77 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:59:59 -0400 From: "H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" Message-Id: <200408050056.i750ujfQ010136@wildsau.enemy.org> Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices In-Reply-To: <20040804125818.GM10340@suse.de> To: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:56:45 +0200 (MET DST) CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, Aug 04 2004, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > + * Sat Jun 12 12:48:12 CEST 2004 herp - Herbert Rosmanith > > > + * Force ATAPI driver if dev= starts with /dev/hd and device > > > + * is present in /proc/ide/hdX > > > + * > > > > That's an extremely bad idea, you want to force ATA driver in either > > case. > > Which, happily, is what already happens and why it works fine when you okay - my last email in this matter to LKML, but: it seems to only work fine if you use ide-scsi and configure it acordingly. on our system, where I have disabled scsi completely (ide-scsi doesnt work at all for certain tasks, and beside from that, I need scsi), cdrecord/cdrtools will terminate with "Cannot open /dev/hdX. Cannot open SCSI driver". this is the reason why the patch forces the ata (atapi?) driver. no SCSI driver or configuring of ide-scsi required. > just do -dev=/dev/hdX. What should be removed is the warning that > cdrecord spits out when you do this, and the whole ATAPI thing should > just mirror ATA and scsi-linux-ata be killed completely. > > So I suggest you do that instead and send it to Joerg, cdrecord/cdrtool well, sigh .... been there, done that, but emails to Joerg seem to have a long RTT. therefore, LKML. sorry for the inconvenience :-> bye, herp