PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-13 Thread Matthew Dharm
Attached is a patch to ide-scsi.c against 2.4.0-test8. Please consider applying it. This patch removes the logic which causes ide-scsi to refuse to attach itself to an IDE OnStream drive. While these drives are not supported by the standard st.c driver, there is userspace support (using the sg

Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Attached is a patch to ide-scsi.c against 2.4.0-test8. Please consider > applying it. > > This patch removes the logic which causes ide-scsi to refuse to attach > itself to an IDE OnStream drive. While these drives are not supported by > the standar

Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-13 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:53:13PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > Attached is a patch to ide-scsi.c against 2.4.0-test8. Please consider > > applying it. > > > > This patch removes the logic which causes ide-scsi to refuse to attach > > itself t

Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-13 Thread Willem Riede
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > Attached is a patch to ide-scsi.c against 2.4.0-test8. Please consider > > applying it. > > > > This patch removes the logic which causes ide-scsi to refuse to attach > > itself to an IDE OnStream drive. While these drive

Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
> The second patch that Matt refers to inserts that logic into st so > it does not try to support these drives and fails due to the drive > particulars. Since SCSI, USB and IDE versions of these drives exist, > patching st is more appropriate than ide-scsi. Okay I am a mushroom, keep feeding me

RE: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-14 Thread Bombeeck, Jack
how to obtain the correct load order. cheers, Jack -Original Message- From: Andre Hedrick To: Willem Riede Cc: Matthew Dharm; Gadi Oxman; Linux SCSI list; Kernel Developer List; Linus Torvalds; Kai Makisara; Bombeeck, Jack Sent: 14-9-00 1:53 Subject: Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claim

Re: PATCH: ide-scsi.c to allow claiming of Onstream drives

2000-09-14 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:22:09PM +0200, Bombeeck, Jack wrote: > So st should reject those devices that are serviced by > osst. Couldn't we just let osst claim them first or is > that too simple? I think that letting st claim (under any circumstances) a device which it can't handle is a mistake