Re: Linux v2.5.43

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article
<Pine.LNX.3.96.1021018152918.23760A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>,

I'm happy to report that ide-scsi is still working fine, both for CD,
CD-RW and ZIP drives. Which makes life nice on a system with both ATAPI
and SCSI CD devices, since my scripts need only get the bus and id, not
use another device name format.

Bill Davidsen  <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
| On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Shawn wrote:
| 
| > On 10/16, Bill Davidsen said something like:
| 
| > > I hope you haven't broken running WITH ide-scsi, because most people still
| > > run 2.4 kernels in real life and only test 2.5 because someone has to do
| > > it. Reconfiguring the system to use ide-scsi or not is just one more PITA
| > > thing which needs to be done, or more likely forgotten, with every new
| > > kernel.
| > 
| > Honestly, I think it's ok to bust the old stuff if needed. This is
| > simply my opinion from a user standpoint.
| > 
| > It's really just one kernel argument or /etc/modules.conf modification
| > to fix the old setup, asnd likely, if you set it up in the first place,
| > you can un-set it up.
| 
| And change every script from dev=b,d,l to dev=/dev/cdN. Without hitting
| the actual SCSI CD's, and of course the scd0 (ATAPI on ide-scsi) goes away
| so you have to rename all of your real SCSI CD's.
| 
| On a simple system with one ATAPI CD the problem is small, but on a larger
| and busier system with a fair number of CD-RW drives, it is likely to be a
| real pain, and if you forget to convert back you mess up production stuff.
| 
| It's not impossible, just something I would rather not do unless the
| system is going permanently to 2.6, maybe not even then, since what I have
| works fine.
| 
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| bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
|   CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
| Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.