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

Jens Axboe
2003-09-16T09:20:40Z

On Tue, Sep 16 2003, Ian Hastie wrote:
> On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 22:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > >
> > > Symptoms are that it required cdrecord-pro, which was a closed source
> > > piece of turd I can't do much with ;-)
> >
> > Surely the pro version supports open-by-device as well? And then it
> > should work fine.
>
> It does. However it also produces the same error message as cdrecord when
> doing so, ie
>
> Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
>
> The implication being that it could go away or become broken at any time.

I wouldn't read anything in to that if I were you. Joerg has some mis
guided ideas about ATAPI addressing, but he would be a fool to remove
open by devname at this point.

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Jens Axboe