From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Alexander Stohr <Alexander.Stohr@gmx.de>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
matthew@wil.cx, akpm@digeo.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] Sym. 53c895 fails accessing tape device - kernel 2.9.1-rc1-bk1 trough rc2-bk12
Date: 02 Oct 2004 18:28:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096756118.4415.39.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410022246140.1977@kai.makisara.local>
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 16:25, Kai Makisara wrote:
> I would like to have a little more details. In order to see this message,
> the tape drive should have been in fixed block mode. By default dd uses
> write() size of 512 bytes. The size of linux-2.6.8.tar.gz is 44678561
> bytes. This is not divisible by 512 and this means that the last write of
> dd is not 512 bytes and the write fails in foxed block mode (it fails in
> my tests). Could you give the exact command sequence leading to the error
> and the result from 'mt status' before this sequence?>
> Whatever I have tested now, I have not managed to get any messages from
> sym53c8xx_2 (except the odd transfer error but that is transient).
Well, I have to admit that I changed the tape (got HW errors) and
everything's OK now.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-02 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 15:47 [BUG] Sym. 53c895 fails accessing tape device - kernel 2.9.1-rc1-bk1 trough rc2-bk12 Alexander Stohr
2004-10-02 15:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-02 20:25 ` Kai Makisara
2004-10-02 21:50 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-02 22:28 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-10-03 9:07 ` [BUG] Sym. 53c895 fails accessing tape device - kernel2.9.1-rc1-bk1 " Alexander Stohr
2004-10-03 9:37 ` Kai Makisara
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