Re: max GiB written per boot

Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-08T04:35:45Z

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.

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~Randy