From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
petkovbb@gmail.com,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:52:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B41821B.3050705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001040115.o041FCEA025051@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
On 01/03/2010 07:15 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
>>>> Should I just push commit 1e75540ec5202cae63cd238c86bd880e3d496546
>>>> ("ide-tape: remove back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection") to Linus
>>>> or there is more needed to bring ide-tape to the world of living?
>>>
>>> ... and I'm afraid we'll have to do some serious bugfixing since this
>>> driver is behaving really funny :). Stay tuned, I'm on it.
>>
>> Cool.
>
> Has there been any movement on this in recent months? I gave 2.6.30 a whirl
> on the machine when that was released but it still gave major problems with
> the ide-tape driver. Is 2.6.32 likely to be improved? If so I'll make
> arrangements to test that version.
>
> Presently I'm stuck with 2.6.24.x on this system since ide-tape holds
> together enough on this version to work. I really want to upgrade to a more
> recent kernel but obviously I can't until ide-tape is functional again.
You could also try using libata instead of IDE drivers and see if they
work any better for you..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 7:00 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-09 15:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-09 16:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-10 0:59 ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-10 0:59 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-04 1:15 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-01-04 1:15 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-01-04 5:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-01-05 5:38 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-01-05 5:38 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-03-12 1:31 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-03-12 1:31 ` Jonathan Woithe
2010-01-04 5:52 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-05-18 5:32 ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-18 5:32 ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-18 6:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-18 13:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-10 0:58 ` Tejun Heo
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