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

Jens Axboe
2003-09-11T08:27:37Z

On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> I have another oops for you with 2.6.0-test4-mm3-1 and ide-scsi.
> >
> > ide-scsi is a dead duck. defunct. kaput. Don't use it. It's only being
> > kept around for weirdo things like IDE-based tape drives, scanners, etc.
> >
> > Just use /dev/hdX directly.
>
> 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.

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Jens Axboe