Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup

[Andre Hedrick]

OIC, then it is clear that SCSI can deal with DSC overlap and granting
bandwidth to the other device on the chain which is not ATAPI.
Sorry Pete, but this is the typical mind set of people who do not
understand all the specification from the past that current hardware is
bound to.  Gadi was very clever in making DSC work.  I understand the
principles but seriously doubt I could have derived what Gadi did.

Cheers,

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> >[...]
> > To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
> > completely replaced with ide-scsi?
> 
> James Bottomley was going to take care of this, so I did not
> even bother with ide-tape cleanups in 2.5. Good riddance for
> that crap.
> 
> Note though, ide-tape is not anywhere near semantically
> to the ide-scsi+st, because of its "sophisticated" (e.g. utterly
> broken) internal pipeline. It does a lot of work underneath
> the /dev boundary. Apparently, the author had a bad case of streaming
> stoppages on his 386, so instead of fixing the root cause he
> wrote the monster we have today. Getting rid of ide-tape may
> cause problems on 386's. But then again, perhaps not.
> 
> -- Pete
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group