I seem to be having problems with an HP Colorado 8 GB IDE tape under
2.1.125 SMP. The MB is an ASUS P2L97DS, equipped with two PII 233s, my
system has one disk on the onboard 7888 SCSI, one disk on the first IDE,
and the tape drive on the second IDE. The symptoms are that the tar to
/dev/ht0 fails with an I/O error after about writing a GB or so, although
small writes seem to work fine.
The drive and tapes are brand new. A full backup under 2.1.125 without SMP
but otherwise configured identically seems to have worked fine. Any ideas,
or suggestions as to where this should be reported?
Here's some of the boot log:
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: PIIX4: not 100ative mode: will probe irqs
later
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS
settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS
settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: hda: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: hdc: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: hda: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache,
CHS=82
6/255/63, UDMA
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide-tape: hdc: overriding
capabilities->speed (as
suming 650KB/sec)
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide-tape: hdc: overriding
capabilities->max_speed
(assuming 650KB/sec)
Oct 19 08:46:14 ursula kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB
buffer, 3
200kB pipeline, 100ms tDSC
and here's part of /var/log/messages:
Oct 19 01:11:12 ursula kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
Oct 19 01:11:13 ursula kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Oct 19 01:11:13 ursula kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key =
6, asc
= 29, ascq = 0
Oct 19 01:11:13 ursula kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key =
2, asc
= 4, ascq = 1
Oct 19 01:11:15 ursula last message repeated 178 times
Oct 19 01:11:15 ursula kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =
2, asc
= 4, ascq = 1
Oct 19 01:11:15 ursula kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
Thank you,
doug.
