[5819] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Schau)
Tue Feb 9 05:12:01 1999
From: Brian Schau <bsc@fleggaard.dk>
To: 'Douglas Gilbert' <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
Dominik Stadler <Dominik.Stadler@btk.de>
Cc: heiko_eissfeldt@z.detesystem.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de,
"'xiphmont@mit.edu'" <xiphmont@mit.edu>,
"'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>,
'cdwrite-list' <cdwrite@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:10:24 +0100
> For those who have read this far, I have written my own version
> of the sg driver. It can be found at:
> http://www.netwinder.org/~dougg
>
> It adds scatter-gather (forget SG_BIG_BUFF), per file descriptor
> sequencing (was per device), uses above 16MB if non-ISA adapter,
> command queuing and async notification but requires 2.1.118 or later
> (works fine with 2.2.1). It is also backward compatible with the
> original sg driver.
>
It sounds like it's better than the original sg. Why hasn't it been
incoorporated into mainstream kernel?
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