From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030505AbXCSS23 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:28:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030503AbXCSS22 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:28:28 -0400 Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:47585 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030495AbXCSS21 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:28:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2276 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:28:27 EDT Message-ID: <45FECD45.20705@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:49:57 -0500 From: Mike Christie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Steinmetz CC: Linux Kernel Mailinglist , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2 References: <45FDDA8E.8030100@domdv.de> In-Reply-To: <45FDDA8E.8030100@domdv.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > As posted to lkml and linux-scsi on 2007-03-15 without reply, see > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117395128412313&w=2 for original post: > > It is not so nice when one can write backup tapes but the tapes cannot > be read. I don't know if memory management or the st driver is the > culprit, but this is a not so nice situation. > > I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them > (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to > read a backup tape - I don't have 2.6.x older than 2.6.20 on these > machines). Could you try this patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=116464965414878&w=2 I thought st was modified to not send offsets in the last elements but it looks like it wasn't.