On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:01 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 07/23/2007 12:52 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >> People with IDE tape drives are complaining there's no ide-scsi > >> driver available anymore with the new PATA layer. Is anyone > >> working on one? > > > > It would make no sense. The libata layer is already using the SCSI > > midlayer so compliant devices should already appear with the st driver. > > > > We might need some tape detect logic, but I don't have any tape devices > > so its up to someone with a tape drive handy to help out... > > I should have posted this earlier: It looks like an error handling issue ... which command was being executed at the time the tape at ata2.01 went into the error state? I haven't looked, but it's entirely possible that it's a simple timeout issue: libata does some of its own error handling, but the tape commmands have to run with timeouts set to huge values (because it can take so long to rewind a tape or write a long block). James - 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
