Re: ide-tape problems with 2.4.0

[Mike Dresser]

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
>
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