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);

-- 
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