From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: max GiB written per boot Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:27:14 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031007182714.0eb330c2.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <1064847281.24854.2.camel@patehci2> <1064850600.25057.7.camel@patehci2> <20030929164654.GS15415@suse.de> <1064855570.3184.3.camel@patehci2> <1064865746.4262.63.camel@patehci2> <1065460336.10804.1.camel@patehci2> <1065474044.6835.44.camel@patehci2> <1065484077.2899.1.camel@patehci2> <20031007055714.GO972@suse.de> <20031007151225.0a65dcb7.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20031007225708.GK5662@linnie.riede.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7386 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261263AbTJHBfx (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:35:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20031007225708.GK5662@linnie.riede.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: wrlk@riede.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:57:08 -0400 Willem Riede wrote: | On 2003.10.07 18:12, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:57:14 +0200 Jens Axboe 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. -- ~Randy