From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:55:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20081203135550.GC25548@parisc-linux.org> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20081203100643.GA29340@infradead.org> <150283e90812030531o764b53b8w5bc655085ca4f106@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <150283e90812030531o764b53b8w5bc655085ca4f106@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Willem Riede Cc: Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , bzolnier@gmail.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:31:15AM -0700, Willem Riede wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Isn't ide-scsi the only way to use ATAPI OnStream tapes supported by > > the osst driver? > > You are right. There are IDE versions of the OnStream drives that need ide-scsi. > There are also SCSI versions of the OnStream, which work with osst directly. Why can't osst / libata support the IDE versions of the OnStream drives? What code needs to be written? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."