Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Aug 05 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >From axboe@xxxxxxx  Wed Aug  4 14:58:33 2004
> 
> >> That's an extremely bad idea, you want to force ATA driver in either
> >> case.
> 
> >Which, happily, is what already happens and why it works fine when you
> >just do -dev=/dev/hdX. What should be removed is the warning that
> >cdrecord spits out when you do this, and the whole ATAPI thing should
> >just mirror ATA and scsi-linux-ata be killed completely.
> 
> Nice idea!
> 
> So please start with fixing ide-scsi for Linux-2.4 so Linux won't
> panic() when trying to access CD/DVD-drives that are connected via a
> PC-card interface using ide-scsi.

Let me dig through my mail box and find that report. Hmm that's strange,
you don't seem to have sent one. I'll just dig out the crystal ball and
get cracking on that fix.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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