On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> Attached is a patch to ide-scsi.c against 2.4.0-test8. Please consider
> applying it.
>
> This patch removes the logic which causes ide-scsi to refuse to attach
> itself to an IDE OnStream drive. While these drives are not supported by
> the standard st.c driver, there is userspace support (using the sg
> interface) which works with the ATAPI drive with ide-scsi patched with this
> patch.
>
> So there really is no reason for ide-scsi to reject this device.
Yes,
There is a reason that it was put there, DI-30's require special IO that
st.o does not know how to do.
Look at all the hoops that it took to get ide-tape to work.
If ide-scsi would have done the trick, it would have saved headaches.
Unless OnStream has changed the firmware it will fail, but please try.
> A future patch to make st.c reject OnStream drives it is unable to support
> if coming soon.
>
> Matt
>
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>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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