On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Mark Lord wrote: > Norman Diamond wrote: > .. > > Does anyone know when this bug was added? 2.6.19 is too old for my needs, > > but the range 2.6.24 to 2.6.26 might be OK if they had taskfiles working. > > Maybe I should look for a Slax version that had a kernel from 2.6.24 or so, > > since I can probably customize it in a single day by now. But if the bug > > was already present in 2.6.24 then it would be a waste of time. > .. > > Heh.. the question could be more like, does anyone know which few kernels > that HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ever worked completely on? :) > > I know I have to patch drivers/ide rather heavily to get a working, > reliable HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE on it. > > Much better is to move to libata, and use ATA_16 with SG_IO, > for a standard, working way of doing this kind of stuff. While SG_IO is definitely better way to go submitting your HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE patches wouldn't hurt... Thanks, Bart -- 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
