On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >  I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable 
alternative, 
> 
> ow.  ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing
> bugs in it or anything.  The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err,
> because some tape drives need it.
> 
> If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in
> question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously
> use then we have a bit of a problem.  I don't know of anyone who we can
> turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi.
> 
>

That's quite clear, thanks.  I'll update our documentation to say that 
ide-scsi doesn't work with Bacula, is not actively supported and may be 
removed from the kernel.

What non-SCSI drivers do you feel are or should be well supported?
libata as Kai indicates?

Once I am sure, I'll point Bacula users to those drivers.  
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