On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:46:21PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
>  > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  > > I think ide-scsi needs to be supported for some time going forward.
>  > > After all, cdrecord, cdrdao, dvdrecord aren't going to be the only
>  > > applications.
>  > 
>  > And far longer than that. People seem to be testing and demoing 
> [snip]
> 
> ATAPI tape drives will need ide-scsi too, unless ide-tape somehow
> got repaired lately. And some people already use ide-scsi+st in
> 2.4 since ide-tape doesn't always work reliably.

Whan I last looked at the ide-tape driver  , which was
back in 2.2, it looked like the big problem was actually 
in it error handling , rather than anywhere else.

I don't think it has been changed significantly it that regard
since.

IIRC , the behaviour which appeared to be caueing me a problem
was that some slow driver would be busy long for ide-tape to
get bored. It also didn;t like getting error codes which weren't
spelled out it the quik spec. The common travan mechanism I
get lots of here, spits out quite a few of those. (As well
as failing one of st's enquiry cmds).

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