From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Ebbert Subject: Re: No equivalent for ide-scsi available with the new PATA drivers? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:01:39 -0400 Message-ID: <46A4DEF3.4050106@redhat.com> References: <46A4D91C.3090509@redhat.com> <20070723175239.54b721f1@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35424 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756867AbXGWRBq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:01:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070723175239.54b721f1@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: IDE/ATA development list On 07/23/2007 12:52 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> People with IDE tape drives are complaining there's no ide-scsi >> driver available anymore with the new PATA layer. Is anyone >> working on one? > > It would make no sense. The libata layer is already using the SCSI > midlayer so compliant devices should already appear with the st driver. > > We might need some tape detect logic, but I don't have any tape devices > so its up to someone with a tape drive handy to help out... I should have posted this earlier: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243568