Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x

[Stef van der Made <svdmade@planet.nl>]

Hi Willem,

The standard stuff like mt -f /dev/ht0 status etc etc works. But tar 
doesn't wan't to-do backups anymore both with and witout the patch on a 
2.6.0 kernel. I don't have a 2.4.x kernel handy to test if it still 
works with those kernels and my drive.

What I've done is the following:

bash-2.05# tar -cvb 64 -f /dev/ht0 /
tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
 
lost+found/
usr/
usr/X11
usr/adm
usr/bin/
usr/bin/w
usr/bin/ar
tar: Cannot write to /dev/ht0: Invalid argument
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

It looks as if the backup starts but it almost immediatly ends after the 
drive does some spinning and reading and or writing.

Cheers

Stef

Willem Riede wrote:

>On 2003.12.27 07:43, Stef van der Made wrote:
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>>Willem Riede wrote:
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>>>(By the way, ide-tape contains code for the ATAPI version, the 
>>>DI-30, but that code is old and has serveral known problems - 
>>>I'd like to see it removed - or at least deprecated - I will do 
>>>that myself later if people want me to.)
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>>snip
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>>After some fixing on ide-scsi my DI-30 is now working fine. I don't know 
>>of any bugs in it. All works fine for me. 
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>If your system ever loses an interrupt form the DI-30 you'll find out :-)
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>>                                          Getting rid if ide-scsi might 
>>be a good idea but it ain't going to be easy as a lot of programs are 
>>using the code.
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>I was actually trying to save ide-scsi, as we need it for the DI-30 + osst.
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>> If you need a tester for the di-30 please feed me the patches and I'll 
>>play around with them.
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>Well, you could try the patch in the oiginal mail, and there is a new 
>version of osst on osst.sourceforge.net that you could test.
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>Thnaks, Willem Riede.
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