From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:37:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201803152337.18938.linux@rainbow-software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201803152304.40423.linux@rainbow-software.org>
On Thursday 15 March 2018 23:04:40 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2018 09:04:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers
> > > > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted
> > > > commit since the dawn of git in 2007. Drop them to make block layer
> > > > improvements easier.
> > >
> > > This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :(
> >
> > So you are still using them and the code actually works properly?
>
> I don't use them daily, only occasionally. Last time they worked.
> Checked now and it seems to work:
Forgot that my ZIP drive uses the PPA driver, which seems to work too:
# modprobe ppa
[ 816.690602] ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
[ 816.762167] ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
[ 816.763037] ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
[ 816.807658] scsi host4: Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
[ 816.926616] scsi 4:0:6:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 816.987969] sd 4:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 817.054564] sd 4:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[ 817.158623] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 817.742723] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 817.745168] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 05 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ef 00
[ 839.268575] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[ 840.320383] ..ready
[ 841.596371] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] 196608 512-byte logical blocks: (101 MB/96.0 MiB)
[ 842.088415] sdb: sdb4
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Ondrej Zary
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-15 7:52 [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-15 8:04 ` Ondrej Zary
2018-03-15 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-15 22:04 ` Ondrej Zary
2018-03-15 22:17 ` Ondrej Zary
2018-03-15 22:37 ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
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