I know that many feel that ide-scsi is useless, and should go away.
And you are probably tired of message threads talking about it.
Yet I ask respectfully that you hear me out, and give me feedback.
I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for
OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives
exist in SCSI, ATAPI, USB and IEEE1394 versions.
In the spirit of cleaning up one's own mess, I am working on a new
patch, to hopefully alleviate the problems. I've made liberal use of the attachments to the osdl bug reports [1]-[4] created by Mike Christie and a patch from Philip Auld [10], to give credit
where it is due. I've also looked at ide-cd to see what it does differently.
Linus states in [7] that ide-scsi needs a maintainer. I haven't seen anyone step forward, so that leads me to believe I may be the only person that depends enough on ide-scsi to be motivated?
If people will have me, I am prepared to take on that responsibility.
I am just concerned that I may not have enough of a variety of devices
to be able to thoroughly test it (unless the DI-30 is the only one :-)).
What do people see as the requirements to be able to maintain ide-scsi?