Greets ... I see problems with amcheck here.
32bit Gentoo Linux, Kernel 3.0.3, amanda 3.3.0 Tried with 2 different tapes to rule out defectiv media (LTO-2). amcheck fails and lets amcheck-device hang there, hard or not to kill, only via booting. dmesg: INFO: task amcheck-device:5074 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. amcheck-device D 7fffffff 0 5074 1 0x00000004 f168d000 00000086 f474541c 7fffffff 00000000 33938000 c146b42c f50856c0 f4745420 c174d6c0 c1748000 c174d6c0 f168d000 c10278d9 c12c4e22 f15bc800 000199c1 00000020 c12c4e22 f1508a80 c16ce0f8 00000020 03000000 f46a5e00 Call Trace: [<c146b42c>] ? wait_for_common+0xa7/0xf6 [<c10278d9>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<c12c4e22>] ? scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x41 [<c12c4e22>] ? scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x41 [<f892258e>] ? ahc_queue_scb+0xc/0xb7 [aic7xxx] [<f892c316>] ? ahc_linux_queue+0x47c/0x486 [aic7xxx] [<c12c4ea1>] ? __scsi_get_command+0xc/0x65 [<c146bf5e>] ? schedule_timeout+0x15/0x1bd [<c123c00e>] ? blk_peek_request+0x16f/0x17c [<c146b421>] ? wait_for_common+0x9c/0xf6 [<c10278d9>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<f8964648>] ? st_do_scsi.clone.12+0x291/0x2b3 [st] [<f8964e39>] ? st_int_ioctl+0x63d/0xa5a [st] [<f8966d05>] ? st_ioctl+0xa44/0xd75 [st] [<c10af301>] ? path_openat+0x27d/0x2a3 [<f89662c1>] ? flush_buffer+0x127/0x127 [st] [<c10b0fb5>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x451/0x48a [<c10a4167>] ? fd_install+0x1b/0x36 [<c10a50b0>] ? do_sys_open+0x170/0x17a [<c10afc2a>] ? set_close_on_exec+0x1b/0x34 [<c10b0000>] ? do_fcntl+0x225/0x3ac [<c10b101b>] ? sys_ioctl+0x2d/0x46 [<c1471f10>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 INFO: task amcheck-device:5074 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. amcheck-device D 7fffffff 0 5074 1 0x00000004 f168d000 00000086 f474541c 7fffffff 00000000 33938000 c146b42c f50856c0 f4745420 c174d6c0 c1748000 c174d6c0 f168d000 c10278d9 c12c4e22 f15bc800 000199c1 00000020 c12c4e22 f1508a80 c16ce0f8 00000020 03000000 f46a5e00 Call Trace: [<c146b42c>] ? wait_for_common+0xa7/0xf6 [<c10278d9>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<c12c4e22>] ? scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x41 [<c12c4e22>] ? scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x41 [<f892258e>] ? ahc_queue_scb+0xc/0xb7 [aic7xxx] [<f892c316>] ? ahc_linux_queue+0x47c/0x486 [aic7xxx] [<c12c4ea1>] ? __scsi_get_command+0xc/0x65 [<c146bf5e>] ? schedule_timeout+0x15/0x1bd [<c123c00e>] ? blk_peek_request+0x16f/0x17c [<c146b421>] ? wait_for_common+0x9c/0xf6 [<c10278d9>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<f8964648>] ? st_do_scsi.clone.12+0x291/0x2b3 [st] [<f8964e39>] ? st_int_ioctl+0x63d/0xa5a [st] [<f8966d05>] ? st_ioctl+0xa44/0xd75 [st] [<c10af301>] ? path_openat+0x27d/0x2a3 [<f89662c1>] ? flush_buffer+0x127/0x127 [st] [<c10b0fb5>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x451/0x48a [<c10a4167>] ? fd_install+0x1b/0x36 [<c10a50b0>] ? do_sys_open+0x170/0x17a [<c10afc2a>] ? set_close_on_exec+0x1b/0x34 [<c10b0000>] ? do_fcntl+0x225/0x3ac [<c10b101b>] ? sys_ioctl+0x2d/0x46 [<c1471f10>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 Is my tapedrive dying? Stefan
