Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:41:36 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: unable to read from IDE tape |
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> Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE > tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the > drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. > But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I > get an I/O error, and there doesn't even seem to be any attempt by the > driver to read the tape. This is currently happening under 2.4.5, and > has been happening undeer at least 2.4.2 and 2.4.3, I think it was also > happening under 2.4.1 as well. >[...] > Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
No good thoughts, the driver is simply horrible... You might be able to pick some interesting info by running with tape->debug_level set to 4 (There is an option, but I forget what. Just assign 4 to it after a call to idetape_add_settings. Be prepared for a lots of tracing.
If you come up with any patches, post them to the list.
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