Hi!
Unfortunately my english is very bad, but i'll do my best :-).

A few days ago I've updated my linux-system from 2.0.36 to
kernel 2.2.14. It was done because I hoped to get rid of
the problems with my aha152x and the Mustek scanner.
During scanning the system is unuseable. Even while the
lamp-warmup time, where nearly no data should be transfered.
But with 2.2.14 it is still the same and an even more
worse problem with my HP DDS-1 (1534A) tape drive which is
connected to an aic7xxx together with several scsi disks occurs:
I don't know what the noise produced by the drive means exactly
but it's completly different to the noise during operation
with kernel 2.0.36.
Reading and writing seems to work but strange things are
happening: during write operation of 1GB Data the drive
rewinds (or wind to the end) the tape several times and
back again. The /dev/nst0 device rewinds the tape at
the end of every read or write operation althought the
right minor number is set for non-rewinding operation.
And when using dds2tar the drive gets totally crazy:
It really sounds like it would space forward at high
speed, stop after a few seconds imediatly instead of
slowdown and so the tape wheels are still rotating
a few turns and leave the tape without tension. Then
again after a few secons the drive starts winding
forward at high speed, but when the unwinded
tape gets retension it produces a rather hard sound
and only one second after it stops again.
If I don't eject the cartridge, this continues until
the end of the Tape.
Attention: I haven't seen this yet. It's only a
"sound-diagnostic". But at least a so treated tape
is unuseable. So it might be true.

First i thought my drive is broken. But using
kernel 2.0.36 again everything is fine.

Are this things known already? Should I provide
further debuging output (althought a first look
at syslog shows no errors)?
Is there a fix or workaround? Either for the
aha152x or the tape driver?

I would be really glad!!

thanks!!

bye...
 Klaus



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