From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kern Sibbald Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:21:08 +0200 Message-ID: <200704042121.09399.kern@sibbald.com> References: <200704031508.37222.kern@sibbald.com> <200704041626.15298.kern@sibbald.com> <20070404115536.fd752555.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from matou.sibbald.com ([194.158.240.20]:25612 "EHLO matou.sibbald.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934064AbXDDTVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:21:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070404115536.fd752555.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Willem Riede , Kai Makisara , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:55, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald 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, > because some tape drives need it. > > If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in > question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously > use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can > turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi. > > That's quite clear, thanks. I'll update our documentation to say that ide-scsi doesn't work with Bacula, is not actively supported and may be removed from the kernel. What non-SCSI drivers do you feel are or should be well supported? libata as Kai indicates? Once I am sure, I'll point Bacula users to those drivers.