From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264328AbTDKKe6 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264329AbTDKKe5 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:34:57 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:47075 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264328AbTDKKe5 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:34:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16022.40189.672337.427776@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:46:21 +0200 From: mikpe@csd.uu.se To: Alan Cox Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ATAPI cdrecord issue 2.5.67 In-Reply-To: <1050003892.12498.45.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1049983308.888.5.camel@gregs> <1049984188.887.11.camel@gregs> <1049986391.599.6.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030410193420.GD429@vitelus.com> <1050003892.12498.45.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I think ide-scsi needs to be supported for some time going forward. > > After all, cdrecord, cdrdao, dvdrecord aren't going to be the only > > applications. > > And far longer than that. People seem to be testing and demoing > crazy things like SATA attached scanners, printers and even enclosure > services. ATAPI tape drives will need ide-scsi too, unless ide-tape somehow got repaired lately. And some people already use ide-scsi+st in 2.4 since ide-tape doesn't always work reliably. ide-scsi isn't just for CD/DVD writers.