Re: [PATCH 0/4] ide: generic packet command representation

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 09:32:16 EST


> So, why is ide-scsi still in the tree? Is there some use case besides
> cdrecord? (Which can use /dev/hda already without the ide-scsi blob...)

With old IDE only ide-scsi can handle some of the more obscurely weird
devices, and some tape drives fail with ide-tape but work with ide-scsi
+ osst/st.

Alan
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