Hi Tzvetan, > Under 2.6.26 ide-tape hangs during boot at: > "[ 5.776016] ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: Seagate STT3401A rev 3" > After about 180 seconds the boot continues somehow, but as I understand > it, the cdrom task is still frozen, so the tape and more importantly the > CDROM are not working. > > So, the problem is threefold: > - long delay on boot > - tape no longer working > - cdrom no longer working > > The situation is dire since we have this same tape drive on many systems > and so far I haven't found a way to at least disable it via any > configuration means. The "hdd=none" boot parameter has no efect. > Blacklisting ide_tape in modprobe.d also doesn't affect it.
For me blacklisting the ide_tape module works. I also don't experience the long delay at boot, it did delay before I blacklisted the ide_tape module. My cdrom drive also works normally, I didn't test the cdrom without blacklisting the ide_tape module. My cdrom is a burner so I also blacklisted ide_cd module, not sure whether that changes the behaviour. I also posted a bugreport about this issue in the Debian tracker [1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499752 -- Regards, Mark de Wever -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org