Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:16:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:16:31 -0500 Received: from enhanced.ppp.eticomm.net ([206.228.183.5]:31482 "EHLO intech19.enhanced.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:16:18 -0500 To: Mark Hahn Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi In-Reply-To: From: Camm Maguire Date: 27 Feb 2001 12:16:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mark Hahn's message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:55:11 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <547l2c2giu.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> Lines: 78 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings, and thanks for your reply! Mark Hahn writes: > > Greetings! Two ide tapes, both on second ide channel, both using > > mixing devices from different vendors on the same channel > often gives this kind of problem. sticking in even a cheap > PCI ide controller would pretty dramatically improve your > system (since you could put one device on each channel). > > Good advice, but the problem persists even when the offending drive is alone on the secondary ide channel. In fact, this the configuration in which I first came upon the problem. I installed the second drive later, and when that worked, I suspected a model-specific bug in the driver. One gets an analogous kernel error when using the straight ide-tape driver. Take care, > > > ide-scsi. One works perfectly, the other basically works, but gives > > errors, and occasionally doesn't write full 32k blocks to tape, > > causing amanda errors. > > > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ALI15X3: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ************************************ > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: * ALi IDE driver (1.0 beta3) * > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: * Chip Revision is C1 * > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: * Maximum capability is - UDMA 33 * > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ************************************ > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hda: FUJITSU MPE3064AT, ATA DISK drive > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hdb: ST32140A, ATA DISK drive > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hdc: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ALI15X3: Ultra DMA enabled > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hda: FUJITSU MPE3064AT, 6187MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=788/255/63, (U)DMA > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: ALI15X3: MultiWord DMA enabled > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hdb: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=4095/16/63, DMA > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > > > Feb 25 06:14:22 intech9 kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 > > > > The Conner gives the problem: > > > > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70 5 > > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: ASC=20 ASCQ= 0 > > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 > > > > and occaisional 'gunzip: unexpected end of file' errors on verifying > > the tape. > > > > Take care, > > > > > > > > -- > operator may differ from spokesperson. hahn@coffee.mcmaster.ca > http://java.mcmaster.ca/~hahn > > > -- Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/