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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:43:23 -0700
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:31:06 +0200
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:22:35 -0700
> > "Willem Riede" <wrlk@riede.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 4/4/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >  I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative,
> > > >
> > > > ow.  ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing
> > > > bugs in it or anything.  The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err,
> 
> I haven't heard about any major bugs besides well known module unload problem.
> 
> What have I missed?

oop, caught making unsubstantiatable assertions.

I've seen an ongoing dribble of doesn't-work and it-crashes reports and I
simply have not made any record of them, because it's ide-scsi and I don't
expect there's anything we can do about them :(

Often these reports are from people who are writing CDROMs and the usual
response is "use cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc".

I think Alan and Jens might have some thoughts on the ide-scsi status?