Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:56:30 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel |
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote:
>Hi Alan. > >I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or >2.2.19 kernel.
Be advised that the big IDE patch for 2.2 (at least as of a month ago) contains a backport of the 2.4 ide-tape driver. That driver is BROKEN -- if the last data written doesn't make up a full block, then the driver won't be able to read back ANY part of the last block. The current 2.2.17 ide-tape driver gets this right (you get the data padded with zeroes to a full block).
I reported this to LKML and the ide-tape maintainer a month ago, but he hasn't replied so I can only assume he's off-line or doesn't care.
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