Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Looking at the syslog in Novell bug 232086 in detail, following line may > indicate hardware failure: > usb 5-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -22 I don't think usb 5-1 is related to ide-floppy problem. > My drive is a slave on bus, where master is a modern Seagate ST3160812A. > > On my system I see two regressions: > - One between year 2002 kernels and SuSE Linux 10.0: > Delay with "packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted" before > first read access, then the read will succeed. > I did not yet reproduce this regression just now on my hardware. > - Second between SuSE 10.1 and 10.2: > Delay with "packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted" before > any attempt to access, then it will fail. > This regression is reproducible just now on my hardware, but still may > be caused by hardware problems raised by a slightly different > initialization order. I see. > Tejun Heo wrote: >> [libata] >> And, as the device requires custom high level driver, libata fails >> miserably. Would it be worth to try support these devices? Or are >> they just too outdated to put the effort in? > > As far as I remember, it was working without any special driver with > ide-scsi. If that's the case, libata should work too as long as the HSM problem is fixed. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
