2 * Ver 0.1 Nov 1 95 Pre-working code :-)
3 * Ver 0.2 Nov 23 95 A short backup (few megabytes) and restore procedure
4 * was successful ! (Using tar cvf ... on the block
6 * A longer backup resulted in major swapping, bad
7 * overall Linux performance and eventually failed as
8 * we received non serial read-ahead requests from the
10 * Ver 0.3 Nov 28 95 Long backups are now possible, thanks to the
11 * character device interface. Linux's responsiveness
12 * and performance doesn't seem to be much affected
13 * from the background backup procedure.
14 * Some general mtio.h magnetic tape operations are
15 * now supported by our character device. As a result,
16 * popular tape utilities are starting to work with
18 * The following configurations were tested:
19 * 1. An IDE ATAPI TAPE shares the same interface
20 * and irq with an IDE ATAPI CDROM.
21 * 2. An IDE ATAPI TAPE shares the same interface
22 * and irq with a normal IDE disk.
23 * Both configurations seemed to work just fine !
24 * However, to be on the safe side, it is meanwhile
25 * recommended to give the IDE TAPE its own interface
27 * The one thing which needs to be done here is to
28 * add a "request postpone" feature to ide.c,
29 * so that we won't have to wait for the tape to finish
30 * performing a long media access (DSC) request (such
31 * as a rewind) before we can access the other device
32 * on the same interface. This effect doesn't disturb
33 * normal operation most of the time because read/write
34 * requests are relatively fast, and once we are
35 * performing one tape r/w request, a lot of requests
36 * from the other device can be queued and ide.c will
37 * service all of them after this single tape request.
38 * Ver 1.0 Dec 11 95 Integrated into Linux 1.3.46 development tree.
39 * On each read / write request, we now ask the drive
40 * if we can transfer a constant number of bytes
41 * (a parameter of the drive) only to its buffers,
42 * without causing actual media access. If we can't,
43 * we just wait until we can by polling the DSC bit.
44 * This ensures that while we are not transferring
45 * more bytes than the constant referred to above, the
46 * interrupt latency will not become too high and
47 * we won't cause an interrupt timeout, as happened
48 * occasionally in the previous version.
49 * While polling for DSC, the current request is
50 * postponed and ide.c is free to handle requests from
51 * the other device. This is handled transparently to
52 * ide.c. The hwgroup locking method which was used
53 * in the previous version was removed.
54 * Use of new general features which are provided by
55 * ide.c for use with atapi devices.
56 * (Programming done by Mark Lord)
57 * Few potential bug fixes (Again, suggested by Mark)
58 * Single character device data transfers are now
59 * not limited in size, as they were before.
60 * We are asking the tape about its recommended
61 * transfer unit and send a larger data transfer
62 * as several transfers of the above size.
63 * For best results, use an integral number of this
64 * basic unit (which is shown during driver
65 * initialization). I will soon add an ioctl to get
66 * this important parameter.
67 * Our data transfer buffer is allocated on startup,
68 * rather than before each data transfer. This should
69 * ensure that we will indeed have a data buffer.
70 * Ver 1.1 Dec 14 95 Fixed random problems which occurred when the tape
71 * shared an interface with another device.
72 * (poll_for_dsc was a complete mess).
73 * Removed some old (non-active) code which had
74 * to do with supporting buffer cache originated
76 * The block device interface can now be opened, so
77 * that general ide driver features like the unmask
78 * interrupts flag can be selected with an ioctl.
79 * This is the only use of the block device interface.
80 * New fast pipelined operation mode (currently only on
81 * writes). When using the pipelined mode, the
82 * throughput can potentially reach the maximum
83 * tape supported throughput, regardless of the
84 * user backup program. On my tape drive, it sometimes
85 * boosted performance by a factor of 2. Pipelined
86 * mode is enabled by default, but since it has a few
87 * downfalls as well, you may want to disable it.
88 * A short explanation of the pipelined operation mode
90 * Ver 1.2 Jan 1 96 Eliminated pipelined mode race condition.
91 * Added pipeline read mode. As a result, restores
92 * are now as fast as backups.
93 * Optimized shared interface behavior. The new behavior
94 * typically results in better IDE bus efficiency and
95 * higher tape throughput.
96 * Pre-calculation of the expected read/write request
97 * service time, based on the tape's parameters. In
98 * the pipelined operation mode, this allows us to
99 * adjust our polling frequency to a much lower value,
100 * and thus to dramatically reduce our load on Linux,
101 * without any decrease in performance.
102 * Implemented additional mtio.h operations.
103 * The recommended user block size is returned by
104 * the MTIOCGET ioctl.
105 * Additional minor changes.
106 * Ver 1.3 Feb 9 96 Fixed pipelined read mode bug which prevented the
107 * use of some block sizes during a restore procedure.
108 * The character device interface will now present a
109 * continuous view of the media - any mix of block sizes
110 * during a backup/restore procedure is supported. The
111 * driver will buffer the requests internally and
112 * convert them to the tape's recommended transfer
113 * unit, making performance almost independent of the
114 * chosen user block size.
115 * Some improvements in error recovery.
116 * By cooperating with ide-dma.c, bus mastering DMA can
117 * now sometimes be used with IDE tape drives as well.
118 * Bus mastering DMA has the potential to dramatically
119 * reduce the CPU's overhead when accessing the device,
120 * and can be enabled by using hdparm -d1 on the tape's
121 * block device interface. For more info, read the
122 * comments in ide-dma.c.
123 * Ver 1.4 Mar 13 96 Fixed serialize support.
124 * Ver 1.5 Apr 12 96 Fixed shared interface operation, broken in 1.3.85.
125 * Fixed pipelined read mode inefficiency.
126 * Fixed nasty null dereferencing bug.
127 * Ver 1.6 Aug 16 96 Fixed FPU usage in the driver.
128 * Fixed end of media bug.
129 * Ver 1.7 Sep 10 96 Minor changes for the CONNER CTT8000-A model.
130 * Ver 1.8 Sep 26 96 Attempt to find a better balance between good
131 * interactive response and high system throughput.
132 * Ver 1.9 Nov 5 96 Automatically cross encountered filemarks rather
133 * than requiring an explicit FSF command.
134 * Abort pending requests at end of media.
135 * MTTELL was sometimes returning incorrect results.
136 * Return the real block size in the MTIOCGET ioctl.
137 * Some error recovery bug fixes.
138 * Ver 1.10 Nov 5 96 Major reorganization.
139 * Reduced CPU overhead a bit by eliminating internal
141 * Added module support.
142 * Added multiple tape drives support.
143 * Added partition support.
144 * Rewrote DSC handling.
145 * Some portability fixes.
146 * Removed ide-tape.h.
147 * Additional minor changes.
148 * Ver 1.11 Dec 2 96 Bug fix in previous DSC timeout handling.
149 * Use ide_stall_queue() for DSC overlap.
150 * Use the maximum speed rather than the current speed
151 * to compute the request service time.
152 * Ver 1.12 Dec 7 97 Fix random memory overwriting and/or last block data
153 * corruption, which could occur if the total number
154 * of bytes written to the tape was not an integral
155 * number of tape blocks.
156 * Add support for INTERRUPT DRQ devices.
157 * Ver 1.13 Jan 2 98 Add "speed == 0" work-around for HP COLORADO 5GB
158 * Ver 1.14 Dec 30 98 Partial fixes for the Sony/AIWA tape drives.
159 * Replace cli()/sti() with hwgroup spinlocks.
160 * Ver 1.15 Mar 25 99 Fix SMP race condition by replacing hwgroup
161 * spinlock with private per-tape spinlock.
162 * Ver 1.16 Sep 1 99 Add OnStream tape support.
163 * Abort read pipeline on EOD.
164 * Wait for the tape to become ready in case it returns
165 * "in the process of becoming ready" on open().
166 * Fix zero padding of the last written block in
167 * case the tape block size is larger than PAGE_SIZE.
168 * Decrease the default disconnection time to tn.
169 * Ver 1.16e Oct 3 99 Minor fixes.
170 * Ver 1.16e1 Oct 13 99 Patches by Arnold Niessen,
171 * niessen@iae.nl / arnold.niessen@philips.com
172 * GO-1) Undefined code in idetape_read_position
173 * according to Gadi's email
174 * AJN-1) Minor fix asc == 11 should be asc == 0x11
175 * in idetape_issue_packet_command (did effect
176 * debugging output only)
177 * AJN-2) Added more debugging output, and
178 * added ide-tape: where missing. I would also
179 * like to add tape->name where possible
180 * AJN-3) Added different debug_level's
181 * via /proc/ide/hdc/settings
182 * "debug_level" determines amount of debugging output;
183 * can be changed using /proc/ide/hdx/settings
184 * 0 : almost no debugging output
185 * 1 : 0+output errors only
186 * 2 : 1+output all sensekey/asc
187 * 3 : 2+follow all chrdev related procedures
188 * 4 : 3+follow all procedures
189 * 5 : 4+include pc_stack rq_stack info
190 * 6 : 5+USE_COUNT updates
191 * AJN-4) Fixed timeout for retension in idetape_queue_pc_tail
192 * from 5 to 10 minutes
193 * AJN-5) Changed maximum number of blocks to skip when
194 * reading tapes with multiple consecutive write
195 * errors from 100 to 1000 in idetape_get_logical_blk
196 * Proposed changes to code:
197 * 1) output "logical_blk_num" via /proc
198 * 2) output "current_operation" via /proc
199 * 3) Either solve or document the fact that `mt rewind' is
200 * required after reading from /dev/nhtx to be
201 * able to rmmod the idetape module;
202 * Also, sometimes an application finishes but the
203 * device remains `busy' for some time. Same cause ?
204 * Proposed changes to release-notes:
205 * 4) write a simple `quickstart' section in the
206 * release notes; I volunteer if you don't want to
207 * 5) include a pointer to video4linux in the doc
208 * to stimulate video applications
209 * 6) release notes lines 331 and 362: explain what happens
210 * if the application data rate is higher than 1100 KB/s;
211 * similar approach to lower-than-500 kB/s ?
212 * 7) 6.6 Comparison; wouldn't it be better to allow different
213 * strategies for read and write ?
214 * Wouldn't it be better to control the tape buffer
215 * contents instead of the bandwidth ?
216 * 8) line 536: replace will by would (if I understand
217 * this section correctly, a hypothetical and unwanted situation
218 * is being described)
219 * Ver 1.16f Dec 15 99 Change place of the secondary OnStream header frames.
220 * Ver 1.17 Nov 2000 / Jan 2001 Marcel Mol, marcel@mesa.nl
221 * - Add idetape_onstream_mode_sense_tape_parameter_page
222 * function to get tape capacity in frames: tape->capacity.
223 * - Add support for DI-50 drives( or any DI- drive).
224 * - 'workaround' for read error/blank block around block 3000.
225 * - Implement Early warning for end of media for Onstream.
226 * - Cosmetic code changes for readability.
227 * - Idetape_position_tape should not use SKIP bit during
228 * Onstream read recovery.
229 * - Add capacity, logical_blk_num and first/last_frame_position
230 * to /proc/ide/hd?/settings.
231 * - Module use count was gone in the Linux 2.4 driver.
232 * Ver 1.17a Apr 2001 Willem Riede osst@riede.org
233 * - Get drive's actual block size from mode sense block descriptor
234 * - Limit size of pipeline
235 * Ver 1.17b Oct 2002 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
236 * Changed IDETAPE_MIN_PIPELINE_STAGES to 1 and actually used
238 * Actually removed aborted stages in idetape_abort_pipeline
239 * instead of just changing the command code.
240 * Made the transfer byte count for Request Sense equal to the
241 * actual length of the data transfer.
242 * Changed handling of partial data transfers: they do not
244 * Moved initiation of DMA transfers to the correct place.
245 * Removed reference to unallocated memory.
246 * Made __idetape_discard_read_pipeline return the number of
247 * sectors skipped, not the number of stages.
248 * Replaced errant kfree() calls with __idetape_kfree_stage().
249 * Fixed off-by-one error in testing the pipeline length.
250 * Fixed handling of filemarks in the read pipeline.
251 * Small code optimization for MTBSF and MTBSFM ioctls.
252 * Don't try to unlock the door during device close if is
254 * Cosmetic fixes to miscellaneous debugging output messages.
255 * Set the minimum /proc/ide/hd?/settings values for "pipeline",
256 * "pipeline_min", and "pipeline_max" to 1.
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