2.3.99pre5: ide-tape driver can't read OnStream tapes

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 03:17:49 EST


I've got an OnStream DI-30, and I've been using it fine with the patched
driver under 2.2. However, when I try to use it with 2.3.99pre5, I get
lots of messages:

$ dd bs=32k < /dev/nht0 > /dev/null
ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
hdd : bad access: block=5, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=6, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=7, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=8, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=9, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=2990, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=2991, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=2992, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=2993, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
hdd : bad access: block=2994, count=1
ide-tape: ht0: invalid header identification string
ide-tape: ht0: failed to find valid ADRL header
hdd : bad access: block=2994, count=0
dd: standard input: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out

Relevent boot-messages:
hda: IBM-DTTA-350840, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DTTA-371440, ATA DISK drive
hdc: FX3400S, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/467KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 28229040 sectors (14453 MB) w/462KiB Cache, CHS=1757/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 34X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.07
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: OnStream DI-30 rev 1.05
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 990KBps, 64*32kB buffer, 10208kB pipeline, 60ms
tDSC, DMA
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4

I can't erase a new blank tape under 2.3.99pre5 either; I get much the
same messages.

        J

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