From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willem Riede Subject: Re: sense visible despite ide-floppy in 2.6 maybe Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:08:07 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040611020807.GA28060@serve.riede.org> References: <1086710016.3647.4.camel@patibmrh9> <40C8FB79.1050706@torque.net> Reply-To: wrlk@riede.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:6643 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263585AbUFKCIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:08:11 -0400 Received: from serve.riede.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by serve.riede.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5B2871o029660 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:08:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40C8FB79.1050706@torque.net> (from dougg@torque.net on Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 20:23:21 -0400) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2004.06.10 20:23, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Pat LaVarre wrote: > > SCSI pass thru in 2.6 omits ide-floppy, except if we do resort to the > > ide-scsi deprecated there? > > Pat, > In lk 2.6 the ide-scsi driver is "deprecated" for cd/dvd device types > but not other device types that use the ATAPI protocol. The ide-scsi > driver is in the same group as the usb-storage and sbp2 drivers which > bridge between the SCSI stack and other subsystem stacks. The > ongoing problems we have with this group of drivers is as much to > do with their technical complexity (spanning two different driver > architectures) as it is to do with the politics of kernel > development. > > Anyway ide-scsi probably needs some repair work in lk 2.6. Both > Willem Riede and I have tried. IMO the ide-scsi driver looks ok > from the scsi subsystem side .... And actually it works very well for me currently. (That's not to say there couldn't still be issues with other hardware). If you have specific problems I'll be happy to try and help. Regards, Willem Riede.