From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:52:27 -0600 Message-ID: <4B41821B.3050705@gmail.com> References: <4A062702.8020404@kernel.org> <201001040115.o041FCEA025051@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com ([209.85.217.211]:48881 "EHLO mail-gx0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753224Ab0ADFwb (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:52:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201001040115.o041FCEA025051@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Woithe Cc: Tejun Heo , petkovbb@gmail.com, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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..