Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I wouldn't expect it to. Most people use ATA for that, and it tends to 
> have lower limits than most SCSI HBA's (well, at least the old PATA), so 
> the change - if any - should at most change some of the sg.c limits to be 
> no less than what SG_IO has had on ATA forever.
> 
> Not that I expect people to have a SCSI CD/DVD drive anyway in this day 
> and age, so the sg.c changes probably won't show up at all.

My wife's last two laptops have both had 'SCSI' CD/DVD -- firewire on
the Vaio and SATA on the Lifebook.  Neither time have distros been
prepared to deal with such things ;-(

http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9038 shows it's not
just my distro of choice that has problems with SATA ATAPI.
Unfortunately, the one-line change to enable that by default was too
late for 2.6.16, according to jgarzik.  I just hope all the distros
patch it.
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