Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot

[Robert Hancock]

On 01/03/2010 07:15 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > > > Should I just push commit 1e75540ec5202cae63cd238c86bd880e3d496546
> > > > ("ide-tape: remove back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection") to Linus
> > > > or there is more needed to bring ide-tape to the world of living?
> > >
> > > ... and I'm afraid we'll have to do some serious bugfixing since this
> > > driver is behaving really funny :). Stay tuned, I'm on it.
> >
> > Cool.
>
> 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.
>
> Presently I'm stuck with 2.6.24.x on this system since ide-tape holds
> together enough on this version to work.  I really want to upgrade to a more
> recent kernel but obviously I can't until ide-tape is functional again.

You could also try using libata instead of IDE drivers and see if they 
work any better for you..
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