Re: max GiB written per boot

Jens Axboe
2003-10-08T06:44:51Z

On Tue, Oct 07 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:27:14 -0700 "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> | On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:57:08 -0400 Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org> wrote:
> |
> | | On 2003.10.07 18:12, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> | | > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:57:14 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> | | >
> | | > |
> | | > | Yeah, ide-scsi is broken so you probably shouldn't be using it.
> | | >
> | | > Is there any sense in trying to repair it?
> | | > I could spend some time on it...
> | |
> | | Yes, there is IMHO. The Onstream tape driver (osst) depends on ide-scsi
> | | for controlling the IDE version of the drive (DI-30).
> | |
> | | Fixing ide-scsi is not trivial, though. I've spent some time on it
> | | on and off and have not been all that successful. The biggest problem
> | | I have is the error recovery -- making ide subsystem error handling
> | | happen when the scsi error handler needs it...
> |
> | Alan said (a few months back) that he was fixing ide-scsi in 2.4.x-ac
> | and that it should be forward-ported to 2.6.x, so that is where I
> | would begin... I haven't checked it for progress yet.
>
> but this hasn't really happened (2.4.x-ac ide-scsi) afaict.

2.4 and 2.6 also uses different error handling for ide-scsi, so it would
probably not have helped you a lot.

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Jens Axboe