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From: Tim Moore <timothymoore@bigfoot.com>
To: Mark Bratcher <bratcher@tpr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:36:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF9B876.FDB1B6DD@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF9558F.9C76953C@tpr.com> <3AF9B411.2A0F3F43@tpr.com>

Use SCSI emulation instead of ATAPI for the tape device.  Also make sure
your mt is >= 0.5.

[tim@abit tim]# mt -v
mt-st v. 0.5b
[tim@abit linux]# dump -v
dump 0.4b
[tim@abit linux]# restore -v
restore 0.4b17


[dmesg exerpts - tape is /dev/st0]
...
hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
...
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: HP        Model: COLORADO 20GB     Rev: 4.01
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
...

for 2.2.x .config:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI
#CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE
CONFIG_SCSI
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST


> immediately after the backup completes and I try to write a file mark with "mt":
> 
> May  9 16:50:49 isaiah kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
> May  9 16:52:05 isaiah kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> May  9 16:52:05 isaiah kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
> May  9 16:52:05 isaiah kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
> May  9 16:52:06 isaiah kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
> May  9 16:54:06 isaiah kernel: ide-tape: ht0: DSC timeout
> May  9 16:54:06 isaiah kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
> ...

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-09 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-09 14:34 ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4 Mark Bratcher
2001-05-09 21:18 ` ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More Mark Bratcher
2001-05-09 21:36   ` Tim Moore [this message]
2001-05-10 12:31     ` Mark Bratcher
2001-05-10 17:33       ` Mike Dresser
2001-05-10 20:48         ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-05-10 21:26           ` Tim Moore

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