Hi. Still having problems with the Sony Tape drive (Sony SuperStation). I
found some help on USEnet and other resources.
Upgrading to the 2.2.0 pre1 kernel helped a whole lot. The drive stopped
hurling upon the kernel detecting the drive on boot. Now, it lets me back up
just about 2MB of data, and then reports the following (data obtained from
/var/log/messages):
Dec 29 22:49:43 master kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 29 22:49:43 master kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Dec 29 22:49:43 master kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 3a,
ascq = 0
Dec 29 22:49:44 master last message repeated 18 times
Dec 29 22:49:44 master kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Dec 29 22:49:47 master last message repeated 81 times
Dec 29 22:49:47 master kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
As you can see, I'm still having a problem. The drive SOUNDS different when
the problem occurs. I dunn if it's a buffer overrun, or if the drive thinks
it's getting to the end of the tape, or what.
I'm using a 6.6GB tape (3.3 GB uncompressed) in this first test. things appear to be
writing to the tape fine until about 2MB are written. I've tried using
tar, dump, etc. No matter what the utility, I get the same errors. So I think
it's a kernel issue.
Anyone have any advice?
Thanks!
Bobby Newmark
