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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Norman Diamond <n0diamond@yahoo.co.jp>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug crashing in HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:35:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902252035.05347.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A570DB.8090401@rtr.ca>

On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Mark Lord wrote:
> Norman Diamond wrote:
> ..
> > Does anyone know when this bug was added?  2.6.19 is too old for my needs,
> > but the range 2.6.24 to 2.6.26 might be OK if they had taskfiles working.
> > Maybe I should look for a Slax version that had a kernel from 2.6.24 or so,
> > since I can probably customize it in a single day by now.  But if the bug
> > was already present in 2.6.24 then it would be a waste of time.
> ..
> 
> Heh.. the question could be more like, does anyone know which few kernels
> that HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ever worked completely on?  :)
> 
> I know I have to patch drivers/ide rather heavily to get a working,
> reliable HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE on it.
> 
> Much better is to move to libata, and use ATA_16 with SG_IO,
> for a standard, working way of doing this kind of stuff.

While SG_IO is definitely better way to go submitting your
HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE patches wouldn't hurt...

Thanks,
Bart

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-25 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-24 11:36 Kernel bug crashing in HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE Norman Diamond
2009-02-24 22:10 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-25 11:43   ` Norman Diamond
2009-02-25 16:24     ` Mark Lord
2009-02-25 19:35       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-02-25 21:18         ` Norman Diamond
2009-02-25 22:43           ` Mark Lord
2009-02-26 11:56             ` Norman Diamond
2009-02-28  3:14               ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-01  0:58                 ` Norman Diamond
2009-03-01  1:16                   ` Alan Cox
2009-03-01 11:06                   ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-02  0:24                     ` Norman Diamond
2009-03-02  2:38                       ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-02 11:43                         ` Norman Diamond
2009-03-11 22:33                       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-03-11 23:00                         ` Norman Diamond
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-03 11:44 Norman Diamond

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