linux-kernel - Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot

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Message-ID: <4B41821B.3050705@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:52:27 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, petkovbb@...il.com,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot

On 01/03/2010 07:15 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
>>>> Should I just push commit 1e75540ec5202cae63cd238c86bd880e3d496546
>>>> ("ide-tape: remove back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection") to Linus
>>>> or there is more needed to bring ide-tape to the world of living?
>>>
>>> ... and I'm afraid we'll have to do some serious bugfixing since this
>>> driver is behaving really funny :). Stay tuned, I'm on it.
>>
>> Cool.
>
> Has there been any movement on this in recent months?  I gave 2.6.30 a whirl
> on the machine when that was released but it still gave major problems with
> the ide-tape driver.  Is 2.6.32 likely to be improved?  If so I'll make
> arrangements to test that version.
>
> Presently I'm stuck with 2.6.24.x on this system since ide-tape holds
> together enough on this version to work.  I really want to upgrade to a more
> recent kernel but obviously I can't until ide-tape is functional again.

You could also try using libata instead of IDE drivers and see if they 
work any better for you..
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