Re: Linux tape drivers

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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.  
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