> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:45:12AM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > > Has there been any movement on this in recent months? I gave 2.6.30 a whirl > > on the machine when that was released but it still gave major problems with > > the ide-tape driver. Is 2.6.32 likely to be improved? If so I'll make > > arrangements to test that version. > > Yes, please do test 2.6.32 to see whether it fixes your problem. If you still > get that oops, please apply the following patch and send me the _whole_ dmesg > output of the machine. Ok, will do. Since it is a production machine and I've got linux.conf.au coming up it may be a couple of weeks before I get to do the test. I'll advise the outcome once I have tested it. Robert Hancock wrote: > You could also try using libata instead of IDE drivers and see if they > work any better for you.. Yes, a good suggestion (I'm not sure why I neglected to try that initially). I'll test that too and report back. Regards jonathan -- 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
