Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:56:21 GMT
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200311061956.hA6JuL6V002039@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt
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Quote from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:

> ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed there 
> was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because of a broken 
> interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted to touch SCSI 
> devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't really worth it.

Hmmm, but ide-scsi is used for a lot more than cd recorders these
days.  Alan mentioned 'crazy' SATA devices back in April.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105000779411632&w=2

(Not that I'm suggesting that it is particularly sane to deal with an
SATA connected printer by presenting it as a SCSI device, but I just
can't see how ide-scsi could successfully be removed now :-( )

John.
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