[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What you see is a result of a design flaw in the Linux kernel:
>
> A "natural" implementation would look like this:
>
> - one or more SCSI parallel Host adapter drivers
>
> - one oe more SCSI serial Host adapter drivers (e.g. ieee 1034 ???
>Fire wire)
>
> - one or more IDE packet SCSI hostadapter drivers
>
> All working with a single SCSI glue library to:
>
> - CD-ROM driver
>
> - Tape driver
>
> ...
Yes, I want this :).
> Well as it seems that there is no co-ordination between different driver groups
> for the Linux kernel, you now have two SCSI CD-ROM drivers :-(
>
> - One sending SCSI commands directly to the SCSI glue layer
>
> - One wrapping SCSI commands into ATAPI IDE packets
>
> If the driver structure would follow the natural way of device definitions,
> there would only be one SCSI-CD-ROM driver and you would have no problem
> to use cdrecord on a standard kernel.
>
> A possible solution would be to talk to the driver developers and please them
> to make the natural way the default Linux configuration.
Ok, where should I sign?? I know you talked to the scsi team and you
finally
got some decent SCSI drivers. Perhaps such a thing can be done for 2.5.
Can you
ask them to do so? If they need people asking for the feature I will add
myself,
just tell me where!
Thanks.
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Manuel Clos,
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