My box has a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive as hdd;
hdc is a Philips CD-RW, and the controller is ICH2 (i850 chipset).
dmesg log from inserting ide-tape as a module:
ide-tape: Dumping ATAPI Identify Device tape parameters
ide-tape: Protocol Type: <6>ATAPI
ide-tape: Device Type: 1 - <6>Streaming Tape Device
ide-tape: Removable: Yes
ide-tape: Command Packet DRQ Type: <6>Accelerated DRQ
ide-tape: Command Packet Size: <6>12 bytes
ide-tape: Model: Seagate STT8000A
ide-tape: Firmware Revision: 5.51
ide-tape: Serial Number:
ide-tape: Write buffer size: 372736 bytes
ide-tape: DMA: Yes
ide-tape: LBA: Yes
ide-tape: IORDY can be disabled: Yes
ide-tape: IORDY supported: Yes
ide-tape: ATAPI overlap supported: No
ide-tape: PIO Cycle Timing Category: 2
ide-tape: DMA Cycle Timing Category: 2
ide-tape: Single Word DMA supported modes: <6>0 <6>1 <6>2 <6>
ide-tape: Multi Word DMA supported modes: <6>0 <6>1 <6>2 <6>(active) <6>
ide-tape: Enhanced PIO Modes: Mode 3
ide-tape: Minimum Multi-word DMA cycle per word: <6>120 ns
ide-tape: Manufacturer's Recommended Multi-word cycle: <6>120 ns
ide-tape: Minimum PIO cycle without IORDY: <6>120 ns
ide-tape: Minimum PIO cycle with IORDY: <6>120 ns
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: Seagate STT8000A rev 5.51
--- long delay here, about a minute or so
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: DMA disabled
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
--- long delay here, about a minute or so
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
--- long delay here, about a minute or so
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
--- at this point I'm tired of waiting and reboot the machine
/Mikael
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