On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Robert Dale wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Gael Queri wrote:
>
> > > I don't know why this has not made it into the kernel, but I made a
> > > patch.
> >
> > Where did you get that ? It's too old...
>
> Tekram's driver support pages.. ftp://ftp.tekram.com/SCSI/3X5/linux
>
> > The latest version is at
> > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/
>
> Thanks.
>
> > The patch didn't make into the kernel simply because Kurt
> > is too lazy to send a patch to Linus :)
>
> Damnit ;)
Well, actually Kurt has some real reasons for not including it.
I'm quoting what he said on linux-scsi:
> I wanted to have this driver integrated in the kernel since some time, but
> new and new problems pop up. It is not all that easy to maintain a driver,
> if the docu you have is rather sparse.
> It works for most people, but I would not make my company depend on the data
> on a harddisk connected to it ...
> ... and do not want to submit it before I would risk to use with as much
> confidence as any other SCSI driver.
However we could put into 2.4 with a CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, like ntfs
which is IMHO far more dangerous...
Personally I've been using this driver with my main hard disk
for four months and didn't have any problem with it.
regards, gael
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