From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: ChristianBornträger <christian@borntraeger.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org
Subject: Re: some ide-scsi commands starve drives on the same cable
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:13:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C95E7E3.4020300@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16mIEq-0006nO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>during some activities (e.g. erasing a CDRW or fixating a CDR on my
>>CD-Burner) the hard disc on the same cable cannot be accessed.All data and
>>swap partitions are inaccessable. There is no dmesg output, just entering the
>>mount point fails.
>>I am not sure if it is a kernel problem or if it is a firmware-bug.
>
>
> Neither. Its an IDE design limitation. IDE can't handle disconnects like
> real scsi does. The fixate command effectively locks the bus until it
> completes.
>
> There has been some movement forward in the standards on this. You might
> want to ask our new 2.5 IDE maintainer if/when it will be implemented - I
> suspect you have to wait a while though. There is much IDE to clean up first
Just for the record: I'm aware of it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-18 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 13:58 some ide-scsi commands starve drives on the same cable Christian Bornträger
2002-03-16 17:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-18 13:13 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-03-18 16:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 16:30 ` Christian Bornträger
2002-03-18 16:37 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-18 17:16 ` Alan Cox
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