Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Joerg Schilling
2004-08-05T12:01:11Z

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>From axboe@suse.de Wed Aug 4 14:58:33 2004

>> That's an extremely bad idea, you want to force ATA driver in either
>> case.

>Which, happily, is what already happens and why it works fine when you
>just do -dev=/dev/hdX. What should be removed is the warning that
>cdrecord spits out when you do this, and the whole ATAPI thing should
>just mirror ATA and scsi-linux-ata be killed completely.

Nice idea!

So please start with fixing ide-scsi for Linux-2.4 so Linux won't panic()
when trying to access CD/DVD-drives that are connected via a PC-card interface
using ide-scsi.

Jörg

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