You need a Firmware UPGRADE to 1.06 on your DI-30
Will send it to you off line......
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ha Quoc- Viet wrote:
> Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> > Ha Quoc- Viet wrote:
> > >
> > > 2.3.51 will recover from any access to the tape, after outputing to
> > > the terminal a few lines about wrong sector/data, and plain io error.
> > >
> > Ok, this means that you see another problem:
> > I _only_ got dma timeouts: no error messages, no io errors,...
> >
> > It's possible that the bug is SMP related, but I assume that the
> > different timing causes the problems: we use a different interrupt
> > controller, some instructions are far slower because we must synchronize
> > both cpus.
> > [IIRC I read that the interrupt latency went up by a factor of 3, but
> > that was a development kernel, perhaps with debugging enabled]
> >
> > Did you already post the complete bug description with the io error
> > codes to the mailing list?
>
> ok, you will find included 4 excerpt from my syslog that trace my
> attempts at reading an OnStream DI-30 (ide-tape)
> on a dual celeron 366, no overclocking. hardware is Asus P2B-D (440BX).
>
> - 2.2.14 compiled in single CPU mode (but 2 physical CPUs), no nonus
> patch.
> this is the kernel that ships on debian's floppies.
> - 2.2.14 compiled in SMP mode, with nonus patch.
> - 2.2.15pre14 SMP + nonus patch.
> - 2.3.51 SMP, no nothing, plain archive version.
>
> it's not there, but 2.3.99pre3 works fine now.
>
>
> Tell me what you think
>
>
> Viet
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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