Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933987AbYBOOcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:32:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757810AbYBOOb4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:31:56 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45777 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756795AbYBOObz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:31:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:24:01 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ide: generic packet command representation Message-ID: <20080215142401.2857852d@core> In-Reply-To: References: <1202718880-1793-1-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com> <200802120109.24152.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 553 Lines: 13 > So, why is ide-scsi still in the tree? Is there some use case besides > cdrecord? (Which can use /dev/hda already without the ide-scsi blob...) With old IDE only ide-scsi can handle some of the more obscurely weird devices, and some tape drives fail with ide-tape but work with ide-scsi + osst/st. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/