From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:20:57 +0200 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: ide-scsi oops was: 2.6.0-test4-mm3 Message-ID: <20030911082057.GP1396@suse.de> References: <20030910114346.025fdb59.akpm@osdl.org> <10720000.1063224243@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10720000.1063224243@flay> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 10 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> I have another oops for you with 2.6.0-test4-mm3-1 and ide-scsi. > > > > ide-scsi is a dead duck. defunct. kaput. Don't use it. It's only being > > kept around for weirdo things like IDE-based tape drives, scanners, etc. > > > > Just use /dev/hdX directly. > > That's a real shame ... it seemed to work fine until recently. Some > of the DVD writers (eg the one I have - Sony DRU500A or whatever) Then maybe it would be a really good idea to find out why it doesn't work with ide-cd. What are the symptoms? > need it. Is it unfixable? or just nobody's done it? It's not unfixable, there's just not a lot of motivation to fix it since it's basically dead. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org