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

On Thu, Sep 11 2003, Gerhard Mack wrote:

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

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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?

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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.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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