Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:22:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: ATAPI cdrecord issue 2.5.67 | From | Roger Gammans <> |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:46:21PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote: > Alan Cox writes: > > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > I think ide-scsi needs to be supported for some time going forward. > > > After all, cdrecord, cdrdao, dvdrecord aren't going to be the only > > > applications. > > > > And far longer than that. People seem to be testing and demoing > [snip] > > ATAPI tape drives will need ide-scsi too, unless ide-tape somehow > got repaired lately. And some people already use ide-scsi+st in > 2.4 since ide-tape doesn't always work reliably.
Whan I last looked at the ide-tape driver , which was back in 2.2, it looked like the big problem was actually in it error handling , rather than anywhere else.
I don't think it has been changed significantly it that regard since.
IIRC , the behaviour which appeared to be caueing me a problem was that some slow driver would be busy long for ide-tape to get bored. It also didn;t like getting error codes which weren't spelled out it the quik spec. The common travan mechanism I get lots of here, spits out quite a few of those. (As well as failing one of st's enquiry cmds).
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