Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:38:35 +0200 (IST) | | From | Gadi Oxman <> | | Subject | Re: IDE Tape Drives |
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Hi Juan,
I have done everything I could do for this drive in the 2.2 series; this tape is definitely not standard IDE tape drive, and before the latest kernels we couldn't talk to it. We are now in the stage in which we can:
(1) Issue commands and read the drive's responses. (2) perform a short (just a few megabytes) backup/restore.
(the crash when compiling the module statically in the kernel is easy to fix -- the tape only responds with its capabilities when a media is inserted and loaded by the drive, and the kernel probably booted before that.)
I believe that we'll get it supported under Linux eventually, but this might be a long process.
Gadi
> Hi Folks - > > I am sorry to disturb your kernel development activities but I am having > major problems with a Sony SuperStation IDE drive I recently purchased. Is > this drive supported by the Linux kernel? Is support for it broken in the > 2.2.1 series of kernels? I currently use RedHat 5.2 that has been > customized to support kernel 2.2.1. If I compile the IDE/Tape as a loadable > module at run time I am able to store and retrieve small amounts of data but > trying to store large amounts of data will always result in lots of I/O > errors. Moreover, if I compile the IDE/Tape module statically into the > kernel and try to backup anything I will immediately get a kernel panic and > the whole system locks up solid. At this point I usually end up having to > hit the reset button to regain control of my workstation. > > I had the ftape module working for a while but after I installed this drive > I removed support for it. Is there something else apart from ATAPI/TAPE > support that needs to be compiled into the kernel for this to work? > > I really could use some help with this. I have emailed the author of > ide-tape.c but have not received any response yet so I figured here was the > best place to ask for help. > > > Thank You. > > Juan Casero > Email: casero@bellsouth.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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