From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pascal GREGIS <pgs@synerway.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: ide-scsi bug with ide tape drives
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 03:20:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907032019.755fff46.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906091913.GB454@thundax>
Pascal GREGIS <pgs@synerway.com> wrote:
>
> I have a big problem that I supposed to be a bug of ide-scsi, eventhough I'm not totally sure of this.
>
> I am using manual tape drives, some of them are real scsi drives and the others are ide drives, on some Linux systems that I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.12.3.
> The problem is that, with this kernel version, when I read from my ide tape drives, the read does not stop, when it has finished with the real tape data, it keeps on reading \0 characters.
> This problem is new with the kernel 2.6.12.3, or at least with 2.6.12 (it doesn't happen in 2.6.10 nor in 2.6.11.11) and it does only occur with the ide drives, with the scsi ones it returns correctly. This is why I suppose it is a bug of the ide-scsi module.
There were quite a few changes in ide-scsi.c between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.
Bart, could you please take a look?
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