On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:21:08 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:55, Andrew Morton 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. > > > > > > That's quite clear, thanks. I'll update our documentation to say that > ide-scsi doesn't work with Bacula, is not actively supported and may be > removed from the kernel. That seems like a good idea, I'm afraid. > What non-SCSI drivers do you feel are or should be well supported? > libata as Kai indicates? I don't know this stuff well enough to be able to answer that usefully, sorry. > Once I am sure, I'll point Bacula users to those drivers. - 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
