Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:35:02 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: idetape broke in 2.4.x-2.4.9-ac5 (write OK but not read) ide-scsi works in 2.4.4 |
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> 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...
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