Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:01:43 +0100 (MET)
Message-Id: <200401052201.i05M1her002460@harpo.it.uu.se>
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: wrlk@riede.org
Subject: Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:07:28 -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
>> Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it
>> killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi
>> might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis.
>> Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too
>> ugly to live for sure.
>
>I would agree, but would that get any people in trouble? That is,
>are there any IDE tape drives currently supported by ide-tape, 
>that are not compatble with ide-scsi plus st?

My Seagate STT8000A works better with ide-scsi+st than with ide-tape.
As long as a working ide-scsi is around, I couldn't care less about
the ide-tape abomination.

/Mikael
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