[6477] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Status of Linux SCSI generic implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth D. Merry)
Thu May 6 20:42:49 1999
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3730E7C8.95DF7DD8@isl.net> from "Joshua A. Johnson" at "May 5, 1999 7:52:24 pm"
To: johnsonj@sparc.isl.net (Joshua A. Johnson)
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:47:52 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: garloff@suse.de, jkrueger@physics.otago.ac.nz,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Joshua A. Johnson wrote...
> Kurt Garloff wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:07:20AM +1200, Max wrote:
> > > what is the current status of this and what are the plans for the
> > > future? Apparently there is a lot of hurt feelings on the side of the
> > > creator of the famous cdrecord program...
> >
> > According to me, Jörg has some good points, and we should carefully read
> > his discussion.
> > IMHO, sg should be redesigned to make it better suitable for cdrecord and
> > sane (the two main applications). I'm afraid, that in 2.2 not much can be
> > done, because we don't want to change the interfaces.
> >
> > I don't know the sane authors, but I'd like to talk to them and to Jörg,
> > when making the 2.3 sg driver. I would really enjoy, if they would help to
> > design (and implement) an enhanced sg driver.
> >
> > The midlevel SCSI code needs reworking too, but his is definitely a 2.3
> > project. High-Level is OK, apart from sg, acc. to me.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG
> > Linux kernel development; SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974)
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
> Forgive me if this has been addressed in the past.
>
> Is there any chance of getting a SCSI-2 CAM (Common Access Method) interface?
>
> Is there already one?
FWIW, FreeBSD has a mostly CAM-compliant SCSI layer.
Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com
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