Re: oops when using hdc=ide-scsi (2.5.66)

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:27:50 -0400 (EDT)


On 7 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 20:02, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I get this when I boot 2.5.66 and the Linux command line contains
> > "hdc=ide-scsi". Yes, I know that I can remove that option (as in
> > "DDT"), but the kernel shouldn't do this, either.
>
> ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it
> either use 2.4 or fix it 8)

Is that an official position that it will not be supported? People with MO
drives and tape will be supported only on 2.4?

It would make more sense to treat all ATAPI devices as SCSI, I would
think, but I assume there's a good reason for this decision.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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