>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb  9 11:10:29 1999

>> For those who have read this far, I have written my own version
>> of the sg driver. It can be found at:
>> http://www.netwinder.org/~dougg
>> 
>> It adds scatter-gather (forget SG_BIG_BUFF), per file descriptor 
>> sequencing (was per device), uses above 16MB if non-ISA adapter, 
>> command queuing and async notification but requires 2.1.118 or later 
>> (works fine with 2.2.1). It is also backward compatible with the 
>> original sg driver.
>> 


>It sounds like it's better than the original sg.   Why hasn't it been
>incoorporated into mainstream kernel?

It seems that nobody (Linus included) is interested in SCSI on Linux.

Heiko and I have made a new version more then 9 moths ago an nobody
was willing to incorporate this change.....

J�rg

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