On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:28 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:22:06PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > (Added Bart to CC) > > > hello borislav, > > > > may i forward you that *old* Debian kernel bug, > > have seen you working on ide-tape: > > http://bugs.debian.org/11922 > > no we don't carry any ide patches anymore. > > > > maybe you've already fixed it in latest? > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > maks > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> ----- > > > > Subject: Bug#11922: I/O error on blank tapes > > Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:06:18 +0100 > > From: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> > > To: 11922@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Hi, > > > > This does still occur with 2.6.22; with a blank tape in my HP DDS-4 drive: > > > > $ tar tzvf /dev/nst0 > > tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Input/output error That's a SCSI tape, not an IDE one. I cc'd the SCSI list James > > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > > tar: Child returned status 2 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > > > Nothing gets logged anywhere, which fits the original bug description. > > > > This is a well-known issue: see for example > > http://www.sibbald.com/bacula/html-manual/Bacula_Console.html (search for > > "blank tape"). > > > > Regards, > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > Hi Maks, > > we're currently in the process of aggressively cleaning up ide-tape. However, > this brings (almost) no functional changes to the driver and we haven't looked > at any bugs that might exist. Actually, I wanted to probe the community to see > whether anyone is using ide-tape at all, and if not, to remove it completely. > > Since i don't have the hardware, i'm gonna have to ask you (or Stephen) to wait > until all changes have entered mainline and then to try to reproduce the bug again > after having enabled debugging (IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG) and send me the syslog > output. > > Thanks. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
