From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:41:47 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:32266 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:41:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:41:36 -0400 From: Pete Zaitcev Message-Id: <200107010241.f612fa209443@devserv.devel.redhat.com> To: guthrie@home.martnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: unable to read from IDE tape In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE > tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the > drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. > But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I > get an I/O error, and there doesn't even seem to be any attempt by the > driver to read the tape. This is currently happening under 2.4.5, and > has been happening undeer at least 2.4.2 and 2.4.3, I think it was also > happening under 2.4.1 as well. >[...] > Any thoughts on what might be wrong? No good thoughts, the driver is simply horrible... You might be able to pick some interesting info by running with tape->debug_level set to 4 (There is an option, but I forget what. Just assign 4 to it after a call to idetape_add_settings. Be prepared for a lots of tracing. If you come up with any patches, post them to the list. -- Pete