From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Kernel bug crashing in HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: <49A570DB.8090401@rtr.ca> References: <82AA7849DFA14958B6A74CB6ED0B591B@DIAMOND8600> <20090224171044.52e70a6b@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> <26917692A9574F3A9363ED5253B42D2F@DIAMOND8600> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:46328 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756762AbZBYQZD (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:25:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <26917692A9574F3A9363ED5253B42D2F@DIAMOND8600> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Norman Diamond Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe 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