Hi Bart, here are some patches removing the code for adding r/w requests to the pipeline. Instead, they are being queued straight onto the device request queue now. In addition, pipeline speed/control calculation has been removed since it becomes also unused. drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 334 +++++++----------------------------------------- 1 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 288 deletions(-) -- 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