Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-03T13:55:52Z

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:31:15AM -0700, Willem Riede wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> 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?

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