Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 09, 2003 11:30 PM
Funny, I was just ripping ide-scsi the other day with a friend. Besides the issues proposed by this article, there's a huge problem affecting users of IDE devices connected via the USB bus.
I recently purchased a USB 2.0 external enclosure for some of my IDE drives. However, it wasn't until I started playing with it that I realized that ide-scsi was necessary for interoperating with the usb-storage drivers. Forcing a scsi interface on these devices means I lose the ability to tweak IDE settings with hdparm (32-bit I/O, DMA, etc). Has anyone considered this?
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What about IDE devices on a USB bus?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 09, 2003 11:30 PMI recently purchased a USB 2.0 external enclosure for some of my IDE drives. However, it wasn't until I started playing with it that I realized that ide-scsi was necessary for interoperating with the usb-storage drivers. Forcing a scsi interface on these devices means I lose the ability to tweak IDE settings with hdparm (32-bit I/O, DMA, etc). Has anyone considered this?
-fuzzyping
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