Re: Problems with SCSI tape in 2.6.0-test6

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:43:19AM +0200, Petr Cisar wrote:
> I tried to use Compaq SDT-10000 tape drive with the lastest kernel,
> but I am getting these messages in kernel log:
> 
> st0: Failed to read 10240 byte block with 1024 byte transfer.
> 
> and it results in ENOMEM returned by read(). I haven't tried this
> type of tape under any other kernel version, but according to what I
> found on the net, it should work fine.

Normal behaviour for a tape drive, I get the same in 2.4 kernels. Tape
devices are special in that they are character devices with a certain
blocksize.


Erik

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