Re: ide-scsi bug in 2.2.[3-9]

Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il)
Thu, 20 May 1999 08:38:49 +0300 (IDT)


On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga wrote:
>
> > > [ide-scsi detecting all devices several times]
> >
> > Turn off "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN
> > option) in the kernel and you'll be happy. Each one will be detected
> > just once.
>
> Thanks - I still think the bug needs fixing though. It'll cause problems
> on boxes with, for example, an SCSI CD-Changer and an IDE CD-Writer
> (multi-lun required for the changer, but has to be turned off for the
> writer).
>
> LLaP
> bero

It's definitely not a bug; it's a feature, and there by design.
multi-lun ATAPI devices do exist, and it's amazing how over the last
two or three years so many people consider this to be a bug.

Gadi

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