Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 17:03:48 EST


On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:07:28 -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
>> Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it
>> killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi
>> might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis.
>> Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too
>> ugly to live for sure.
>
>I would agree, but would that get any people in trouble? That is,
>are there any IDE tape drives currently supported by ide-tape,
>that are not compatble with ide-scsi plus st?

My Seagate STT8000A works better with ide-scsi+st than with ide-tape.
As long as a working ide-scsi is around, I couldn't care less about
the ide-tape abomination.

/Mikael
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