Sorry, but now it's my turn not to follow you. For sure you need to have scsi
if you want to have ide-scsi. If I use hdb=scsi on the command line I'm
supposed to know what I'm doing.
If it works in 2.2, I don't see why it should not work also in 2.4. Besides, if
it's not possible to do it, it makes no sense to be able to compile ide-scsi in
a modular fashion, because it will not work.
So, in my opinion either you ide.c or change configure option to disallow
modular ide-scsi. Right now it is bogus.
Paolo Zeppegno
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 25 2000, Paolo Zeppegno wrote:
> > > Rereading my posting I understand I did not make myself clear.
> > >
> > > What I'm saying is that to be able to use ide-scsi with 2.4 it MUST be
> > > compiled in, whereas in 2.2 it worked fine as a module. I'm not talking
> > > about the difference in name (ide-scsi vs. scsi).
> > >
> > > If you look at the source code in ide.c in 2.4 test2:
> > >
> > > case -14: /* "scsi" */
> > > #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) && defined(CONFIG_SCSI)
> > > drive->scsi = 1;
> > > goto done;
> > > #else
> > > drive->scsi = 0;
> > > goto bad_option;
> > > #endif /* defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) && defined(CONFIG_SCSI) */
> >
> > Ah right, could you apply the obvious (remove the #if defined as requried)
> > and verify that it then works as expected?
> >
> > Andre, lets remove that. It makes sense to be able to skip a drive and
> > let ide-scsi claim it, also for a modular setup.
>
> You have to have SCSI first to make IDE->SCSI work.
> Don't ask me you get to fly on this one alone to Linus.
> The possible breakages the would/could result are unknown, since Gadi
> placed it there for a reason in the past and it is used further down in
> ide.c I worry........ Regardless if you skip the option of
> ide-cd/floppy/tape and include ide-scsi a configure it is a non-issue,
> IMHO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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