From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261892AbTKMHGg (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:06:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262108AbTKMHGg (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:06:36 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:6111 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261892AbTKMHGe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:06:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:06:27 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: bill davidsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt Message-ID: <20031113070627.GU21141@suse.de> References: <20031111184919.43a93a88.diegocg@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 12 2003, bill davidsen wrote: > In article <20031111184919.43a93a88.diegocg@teleline.es>, > Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= wrote: > | El Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:40:58 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds > | escribió: > | > | > Now it's your turn. Instead of wasting my time complaining, how about you > | > put up or shut up? Show me the code. THEN post it. Until you do, there's > | > no point to your mails. > | > | Until then, I'd suggest this patch to avoid more complains about this: > > The object is not to avoid complaints, the object is to get the If it could avoid your non-stop whining... > capability working again. I presume eventually one of the commercial > vendors will fix it, since it's easier than rewriting all the SCSI > applications in the world. oddly there are people writing useful things > using other operating systems, under 2.4 almost all of those work. It's not about applications, we can fix that differently. You still don't seem to get that moving from ide-scsi is a _good_ thing, from the application point of view. It's about hardware that doesn't work well with atapi drivers yet, for whatever reason. ide-scsi is nice to have to fill those holes. > I hope to pick up another IDE tape drive so I can look at this problem, > the one I have is on a production system, which at the moment has no > reason to go to 2.6 even if it worked, which it doesn't. It also has > software to read ZIP drives in odd ways, and I'm not about to look for a > SCSI 100MB ZIP drive :-( Until then please pipe down, your mails are getting pretty tedious. I dunno why I even read this one. -- Jens Axboe