Re: No equivalent for ide-scsi available with the new PATA drivers?

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:01 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/23/2007 12:52 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> People with IDE tape drives are complaining there's no ide-scsi
> >> driver available anymore with the new PATA layer. Is anyone
> >> working on one?
> > 
> > It would make no sense. The libata layer is already using the SCSI
> > midlayer so compliant devices should already appear with the st driver.
> > 
> > We might need some tape detect logic, but I don't have any tape devices
> > so its up to someone with a tape drive handy to help out...
> 
> I should have posted this earlier:

It looks like an error handling issue ... which command was being
executed at the time the tape at ata2.01 went into the error state?

I haven't looked, but it's entirely possible that it's a simple timeout
issue:  libata does some of its own error handling, but the tape
commmands have to run with timeouts set to huge values (because it can
take so long to rewind a tape or write a long block).

James