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DateFri, 23 Oct 1998 10:14:53 -0400 (EDT)
FromMatthew Hunter <>
SubjectRe: IDE tape and SMP
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:

> I have back checked the ide-driver parts that are pre-me and post-me,
> that is 2.1.121 and 2.1.122. In both cases using an offboard IDE
> controller (Promise Ultra/33) and calling tape commands via
> generic 'tar' commands "tar cvvf /dev/ht0".
>
> Everything seems functional under SMP.......at 2.1.123/124/125 there
> appears to be a hang and DSC timeout. I am hunting through the changes

This sounds like the problem I (and others) were having, except in my
case the problems were present in every kernel I used since 115, and
presumably before that. (I did skip three of the 115-125 revisions for
various reasons unrelated to ide-tape).

--
Matthew Hunter (mhunter@andrew.cmu.edu)


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