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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <42481C66.7090409@samsco.org>, Scott writes:
> 
> 
>>So are you saying that an async notification mechanism needs to be
>>invented for SCSI, or that all SCSI users should be required to use
>>SES or SAFTE enclosures for all SCSI devices, or that we should be like
>>Windows and constantly poll the devices?
> 
> 
> I don't care _how_ we make CAM/SCSI behave like the users expect.
> 

Well, I waved my hands at it for a few minutes, but nothing changed... 
hmm.... =-)

My question to you was partially rhetorical, since a good solution just
doesn't exist.  Even the polling option isn't good because it will
disrupt things like burning CD's; in Windows, the CD burning software
packages that are out there go through an impressive set of hoops to
deal with this polling problem.

Scott