Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Severity: important
Kernel detects ide tape ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: Seagate STT20000A rev 8A51 ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: 1000KBps, 6*54kB buffer, 9720kB pipeline, 108ms tDSC, DMA After which all userland utilities fail to access it or issue any commands to it. The drive mostly works using ide-tape in 2.6.14 and 2.6.16 on write (some read problems). Works fine in 2.6.16 using ide-scsi read/write. Frankly, anyone who has had to use ide-tapes knows that Linus can go get lost with his statement about the IDE tape driver now being a perfect replacement for ide-scsi (multiple times on lkm since 2003). It isn't. In fact I have yet to see a kernel release where it works fine. So disabling IDE-SCSI is not nice. That is the only means to use ide tape drives at the moment. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
