Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:19:58 +0200 (MEST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: ide-tape broken (was Re: [PATCH] use ide-identify.h, fix endian bug) |
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:10:19 +0200 (MET DST), Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> I'd rather use ide-scsi+st or a new clean ATAPI tape driver >> than ide-tape.c. (I've studied ide-tape.c. It reeks of poor > >"new clean ATAPI tape drive" == the one yet to be written?
Correct.
>> coding style, kludges for Onstream, and an over-engineered >> buffering scheme. And it's known to have problems with DMA.) > >So you are familiar with the code, cool. ;-)
Only as a generic coder trying to fix it, and as a user looking at other people's bug reports.
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