From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:32:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:32:39 -0500 Received: from windsormachine.com ([206.48.122.28]:11795 "EHLO router.windsormachine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:32:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3A75E156.65B3656@windsormachine.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:32:07 -0500 From: Mike Dresser Organization: Windsor Machine & Stamping X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert-Jan Oosterloo CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide-tape problems with 2.4.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I ran into this problem awhile ago on a HP 7/14 as well, with the ide patches as far back as 2.2.17. Reported it, didn't get much in responses though :/ I'm just about at the point of giving up on the drives, but not due to Linux. Those drives are not very durable, tend to die within a year around here. Tapes last even less. I've sent 4 drives out of 12 back to HP in the last year, so far. Robert-Jan Oosterloo wrote: > Hi, > > I have a HP Colorado 4/8GB Travan tape streamer. Under 2.2.18 it works > perfect. But under 2.4.0 it doesn't seem to want to read from the tape > anymore. > > When I do a tar tvf /dev/tape, I get an I/O error and in syslog messages > like: > > Jan 29 17:10:23 ijsland kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = > 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0. > > But writing to the tape works fine. > > Is this a known problem? > > Thanks! > > Robert-Jan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/