Re: [PATCH,RFC] make ide-scsi more selective

From: Ion Badulescu (ionut@cs.columbia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:00:30 EST


On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote:

> Here's an end-user perspective for you... I just spent 2 days trying to
> figure out how to use my CD-RW drive to read when using ide-scsi, before
> I finnaly realized that I had to do it by disabling ATAPI CD support and
> enabling SCSI CD support..

Just doing hdX=scsi would have been enough, however. Except it doesn't
work (currently) if ide-scsi is a module.

I agree with Alan that the problem is the grab-on-load strategy that
ide-scsi (and ide-cd for that matter) uses. I am willing to look into
changing that to grab-on-open but I'm not sure if the change is an
appropriate one for a stable series kernel -- it looks pretty non-trivial.

Ion

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