Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:59:35 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 |
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Hi!
> > The act of "suspend" should basically be: shut off the SCSI controller, > > screw all devices, reset the bus on resume. > > > > Doing so will create havoc on sequential devices, such as tape drives. If > your system simply suspends, then all is well. Any data that isn't flushed > yet is buffered inside the tapedrive. But when the system resumes and resets > the SCSI bus, it will cause all data in the tape drive to be lost, and for > most tape systems it will also re-position them at LBOT. Any running > tar/dump/whatever tape process would not survive such a suspend-resume > cycle.
Then there's something wrong with st.
Imagine EMI comes and SCSI gets reset. That should not mean tar failing, right? So you have st broken in first place. Pavel -- STOP THE WAR! Someone killed innocent Americans. That does not give U.S. right to kill people in Afganistan.
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