Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:41:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chris Chiappa <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1.x? |
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Looks good from my house! I was getting GPFs out the wazoo > > using ftape until p17. > Good.
I actually have had some problems with the ftape included in the kernel for a while now. Since they don't seem to be going away, here goes: Sometime in the pre-2.0 or 2.0.x kernels(I don't use my tape drive all that often), something broke for me in the ftape in the kernel, which appears to be based on the 2.0.8 release of ftape. Specifically, I can do any single tape operation, ie 'tar -tf /dev/rft0' or a single 'tar -xf /dev/rft0', however, when the command stops normally or is cancelled, the loadaverage shoots up to > 2 even though no processes appear to be consuming an inordinate amount of CPU time(the forementioned tar command would be maybe 5% or so on my P133).
So, I grabbed 2.0.9 from the ftape homepage(http://www.dolphonics.no/~khp/ftape.html) which worked great. This is somewhat confusing because the home page claims that the kernel version is synched with 2.0.9, while the RELEASE-NOTES file in the kernel appears to be from 2.0.8. In any case, the kernel version would not work for me and the standalong did. Of course 2.0.15-2.0.17 changed the scheduling code which required a fix to ftape, and as a result the stand-alone 2.0.9 no longer works(Hangs the system HARD on tape access). However, I still get the hang with the kernel version I have for a while now. Any suggestions?
Hardware config: Tyan Titan III(triton) motherboard P-133 HP T-1000 travan tape drive
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