On 4/4/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative, ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing bugs in it or anything. The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err, because some tape drives need it. If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi.
Andrew, Kai suggests that libata should be able to take over from ide-scsi. Do you concur? That may be a better way forward than ide-scsi. I know, because I had a hard enough time with it when I needed to fix it so it worked for osst, at least. Regards, Willem Riede. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
