On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Douglas Ridgway wrote:
> 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?
I have a very similar problem, behaving exactly the same way with regard
to SMP, using the same drive. I've emailed the IDE-tape maintainer
about it; he said there could well be some SMP race conditions in the
driver, and just recently got a SMP system, so they should be worked on
soon.
As a temporary workaround, you can activate SCSI emulation and use the
tape drive like a SCSI tape drive. I just got through a backup that way
and it seems to work.
--
Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
