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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Petr Cisar <pc@gts.cz>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape in 2.6.0-test6
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:15:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031006101507.GD10529@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031006084319.GA7360@big.switch.gts.cz>

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:43:19AM +0200, Petr Cisar wrote:
> I tried to use Compaq SDT-10000 tape drive with the lastest kernel,
> but I am getting these messages in kernel log:
> 
> st0: Failed to read 10240 byte block with 1024 byte transfer.
> 
> and it results in ENOMEM returned by read(). I haven't tried this
> type of tape under any other kernel version, but according to what I
> found on the net, it should work fine.

Normal behaviour for a tape drive, I get the same in 2.4 kernels. Tape
devices are special in that they are character devices with a certain
blocksize.


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-06  8:43 Problems with SCSI tape in 2.6.0-test6 Petr Cisar
2003-10-06 10:15 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20031006104003.GA17439@big.switch.gts.cz>
     [not found]     ` <20031006112331.GH10529@bitwizard.nl>
2003-10-06 11:28       ` Petr Cisar

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