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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tape@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: idetape broke in 2.4.x-2.4.9-ac5 (write OK but not read) ide-scsi works in 2.4.4
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:35:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010928223502.D13766@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109042234.AAA28635@harpo.it.uu.se> <20010927234023.A16753@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <15284.16283.111942.13934@harpo.it.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <15284.16283.111942.13934@harpo.it.uu.se>; from mikpe@csd.uu.se on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:15:07AM +0200

> From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:15:07 +0200
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tape@vger.kernel.org

>  > By the way, why does everyone insist on using ide-tape?
>  > It seems to be broken beyond any repair by injection of
>  > lethal poison marked "OnStream Support" (not that it was brilliant
>  > before, but that was the last nail in the coffin). Just use ide-scsi
>  > and be done with it. I really do not enjoy reading ide-tape.c.
> 
> I agree that ide-tape.c looks like a buggy piece of cr*p, but apart
> from that, what would I gain from using scsi tape on top of ide-scsi?
> Would it magically work on broken Colorados?

Umm... I hope someone else would fix ide-scsi when it breaks :)

I fixed Colorado, but it's certainly not the last bug.
Frist, DMA must be off, and it is often on by default.
Second, Dell QA already filed a new tapemark related bug...

-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-29  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-04 22:34 idetape broke in 2.4.x-2.4.9-ac5 (write OK but not read) ide-scsi works in 2.4.4 Mikael Pettersson
2001-09-28  3:40 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-09-28  9:15   ` Mikael Pettersson
2001-09-29  2:35     ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.999367801.660.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-09-04  0:14 ` Pete Zaitcev
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2001-09-01 18:08 Mikael Pettersson
2001-09-01 15:03 Floydsmith

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