From: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:42:01 -0500
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On Monday 13 February 2006 11:26, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > If there is no interest to fox well known bugs in Linux, I would need
> > > to warn people from using Linux.
> >
> > Except for mentioning some DMA related problems at the beginning of this
> > monstrous thread, you haven't shown anything which even remotely
> > qualifies as a bug.
>
> If you forget these things, then please forget about this thread.
>
> I mentioned:
>
> -	ide-scsi does not do DMA correctly


ide-scsi is deprecated and will be removed at a later date. Any program 
relying on ide-scsi will have to be rewritten.

> -	SCSI commands are bastardized on ATAPI

identify the problem - provide a test case or two and I'll get off my lazy ass 
and see if I can't figure out what's causing the problem.

> If you like, I can give you many other Linux related bugs but it does
> not make sense unless the two bugs above are fixed.

Only one bug needs fixed. ide-scsi is not going to be in the kernel much 
longer. Although someone might find the time to fix the bugs for those people 
dependant on older kernels.

DRH
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