[5822] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Schilling)
Tue Feb 9 09:39:57 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:37:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
To: Dominik.Stadler@btk.de, bsc@fleggaard.dk, dgilbert@interlog.com
Cc: cdwrite@lists.debian.org, heiko_eissfeldt@z.detesystem.de,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, schilling@fokus.gmd.de, xiphmont@mit.edu
>From bsc@fleggaard.dk Tue Feb 9 11:10:29 1999
>> 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?
It seems that nobody (Linus included) is interested in SCSI on Linux.
Heiko and I have made a new version more then 9 moths ago an nobody
was willing to incorporate this change.....
Jörg
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