On Thursday 15 March 2018 23:04:40 Ondrej Zary wrote:

On Thursday 15 March 2018 09:04:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:

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On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers
(besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted
commit since the dawn of git in 2007.  Drop them to make block layer
improvements easier.

This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :(

So you are still using them and the code actually works properly?

I don't use them daily, only occasionally. Last time they worked.
Checked now and it seems to work:

Forgot that my ZIP drive uses the PPA driver, which seems to work too:

# modprobe ppa
[  816.690602] ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
[  816.762167] ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
[  816.763037] ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
[  816.807658] scsi host4: Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
[  816.926616] scsi 4:0:6:0: Direct-Access     IOMEGA   ZIP 100          D.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  816.987969] sd 4:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[  817.054564] sd 4:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[  817.158623] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  817.742723] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  817.745168] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 05 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ef 00
[  839.268575] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[  840.320383] ..ready
[  841.596371] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] 196608 512-byte logical blocks: (101 MB/96.0 MiB)
[  842.088415]  sdb: sdb4


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Ondrej Zary