On Thursday 15 March 2018 23:04:40 Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2018 09:04:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers > > > > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted > > > > commit since the dawn of git in 2007. Drop them to make block layer > > > > improvements easier. > > > > > > This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :( > > > > So you are still using them and the code actually works properly? > > I don't use them daily, only occasionally. Last time they worked. > Checked now and it seems to work: Forgot that my ZIP drive uses the PPA driver, which seems to work too: # modprobe ppa [ 816.690602] ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) [ 816.762167] ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit [ 816.763037] ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit [ 816.807658] scsi host4: Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface [ 816.926616] scsi 4:0:6:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 816.987969] sd 4:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 817.054564] sd 4:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred [ 817.158623] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 817.742723] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 817.745168] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 05 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ef 00 [ 839.268575] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk... [ 840.320383] ..ready [ 841.596371] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] 196608 512-byte logical blocks: (101 MB/96.0 MiB) [ 842.088415] sdb: sdb4 -- Ondrej Zary
