Chip,
I thought O grabbed that from you...
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> With Andre's IDE subsystem, I found the below patch necessary to use
> my IDE tape drive (Exabyte Eagle TR-4). Frankly, it's been so long
> since I created this patch that I can't remember the detailed reasons
> for the changes. But I knew them once. :-) And it works for me.
>
> Reminder, this is against Andre Hedrick's 2.2 IDE subsystem.
>
> Index: drivers/block/ide-tape.c
> --- drivers/block/ide-tape.c.prev
> +++ drivers/block/ide-tape.c Tue Dec 5 01:17:32 2000
> @@ -3096,7 +3096,10 @@ static int idetape_queue_pc_tail (ide_dr
> static int idetape_flush_tape_buffers (ide_drive_t *drive)
> {
> + idetape_tape_t *tape = drive->driver_data;
> idetape_pc_t pc;
> int rc;
>
> + if (tape->chrdev_direction != idetape_direction_write)
> + return 0;
> idetape_create_write_filemark_cmd(drive, &pc, 0);
> if ((rc = idetape_queue_pc_tail (drive,&pc)))
> @@ -5199,12 +5202,15 @@ static int idetape_chrdev_open (struct i
> if (tape->chrdev_direction == idetape_direction_none) {
> MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
> + if (tape->onstream) {
> #if ONSTREAM_DEBUG
> - if (tape->debug_level >= 6)
> - printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in idetape_chrdev_open-2\n");
> + if (tape->debug_level >= 6)
> + printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: MOD_INC_USE_COUNT"
> + " in idetape_chrdev_open-2\n");
> #endif
> - idetape_create_prevent_cmd(drive, &pc, 1);
> - if (!idetape_queue_pc_tail (drive,&pc)) {
> - if (tape->door_locked != DOOR_EXPLICITLY_LOCKED)
> - tape->door_locked = DOOR_LOCKED;
> + idetape_create_prevent_cmd(drive, &pc, 1);
> + if (!idetape_queue_pc_tail (drive,&pc)) {
> + if (tape->door_locked != DOOR_EXPLICITLY_LOCKED)
> + tape->door_locked = DOOR_LOCKED;
> + }
> }
> idetape_analyze_headers(drive);
> @@ -5258,14 +5264,17 @@ static int idetape_chrdev_release (struc
> (void) idetape_rewind_tape (drive);
> if (tape->chrdev_direction == idetape_direction_none) {
> - if (tape->door_locked != DOOR_EXPLICITLY_LOCKED) {
> - idetape_create_prevent_cmd(drive, &pc, 0);
> - if (!idetape_queue_pc_tail (drive,&pc))
> - tape->door_locked = DOOR_UNLOCKED;
> - }
> - MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
> + if (tape->onstream) {
> + if (tape->door_locked != DOOR_EXPLICITLY_LOCKED) {
> + idetape_create_prevent_cmd(drive, &pc, 0);
> + if (!idetape_queue_pc_tail (drive,&pc))
> + tape->door_locked = DOOR_UNLOCKED;
> + }
> #if ONSTREAM_DEBUG
> - if (tape->debug_level >= 6)
> - printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT in idetape_chrdev_release\n");
> + if (tape->debug_level >= 6)
> + printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT"
> + " in idetape_chrdev_release\n");
> #endif
> + }
> + MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
> }
> clear_bit (IDETAPE_BUSY, &tape->flags);
>
> --
> Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com>
> "We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms." -- NEAR tech
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