Re: ide-scsi oops was: 2.6.0-test4-mm3

Jens Axboe
2003-09-11T21:56:14Z

On Thu, Sep 11 2003, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > > That's a real shame ... it seemed to work fine until recently. Some
> > > of the DVD writers (eg the one I have - Sony DRU500A or whatever)
> >
> > Then maybe it would be a really good idea to find out why it doesn't
> > work with ide-cd. What are the symptoms?
> >
> > > need it. Is it unfixable? or just nobody's done it?
> >
> > It's not unfixable, there's just not a lot of motivation to fix it since
> > it's basically dead.
> >
>
> What about backwards compatability with all of that cd burning software
> out there that only knows to scan the SCSI devices?

That's basically impossible, I don't want to shoe horn atapi numbering
into faked bus,id,lun type things.

So people will just have to get used to the change. And I bet that Joe
user with his cd-r thinks it's a lot more intuitive to use dev=/dev/hdc
(which is his burner) rather than dev=1,0,0 for instance. The scanning
basically helps that case alone, because noone can guess these numbers.

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Jens Axboe