On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14563 ,,, > Overview: > > Performing tape backups using amanda 2.6.0-p2 [using 512kB block size] leads to > spurious 'EIO' errors when writing to the tape; most of the time a kernel BUG > is hit shortly thereafter. > Can you try this with debugging enabled in st? (Edit st.c to '#define DEBUG 1' and recompile the module.) This might give more information about the source of the EIO and the code path it uses. ... > Amanda should correctly write to tape during backup as it does using kernels <= > 2.6.27.10. > > > Affected versions: > > The oldest kernel I tried which DOES exhibit the problem is 2.6.29.4; other > kernels exhibiting this problem are 2.6.30.3 and 2.6.31.5. > There were major changes to the code performing the SCSI commands at 2.6.29. The changes were mostly done by Fujita Tomonori and I added him to the cc list. Kai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
