Re: Kernel bug crashing in HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

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.

Cheers