> I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem in my case, as I've tested
> it on different hardware (non-SMP system) and it worked there...
OK now I am no longer sure why my Eagle 4i IDE 8GB Travan-4 tape drive is
having problems. Here's a sample output of a test run I did earlier using
bru (which I think is EXCELLENT!)
tahallah[root]:/root # bru -cvvvv /usr/src/linux
ide-tape: ht0: DSC timeout
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0x80
ide1: reset: success
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 0, asc = 0, ascq = 0
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xc0
ide1: reset: success
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 3, asc = 11, ascq = 0
buffer size = 32k bytes
media size = 3906240 Kilobytes (3.90 Gigabytes) usable
c 2k of 4k [1] drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Oct 9 07:26 /
c 2k of 6k [1] drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Oct 9 22:04 /usr
c 2k of 8k [1] drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 9 07:11 /usr/src
c 2k of 10k [1] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 9 07:07 /usr/src/linux symbolic link to linux-2.1.125
bru: [I181] wrote 16 blocks (32 KBytes) on volume [1], 0:00:00, 9999 Kb/sec
bru: [I143] rewinding volume [1] to begin autoscan
bru: [I144] begin autoscan of volume [1]
bru: [I184] waiting 15 seconds to finish rewind
bru: [I184] waiting 15 seconds to finish rewind
bru: [I184] waiting 15 seconds to finish rewind
bru: [I184] waiting 15 seconds to finish rewind
bru: [E148] autoscan read error at block 0 (0.00 Megabytes)
bru: [W210] warning - could not rewind device
**** bru: execution summary ****
Started: Tue Oct 13 00:24:32 1998
Completed: Tue Oct 13 00:29:30 1998
Archive id: 3622d600005d
Messages: 1 warnings, 1 errors
Archive I/O: 16 blocks (32Kb) written
Archive I/O: 0 blocks (0Kb) read
Files written: 4 files (0 regular, 4 other)
Files read: 0 files (0 regular, 0 other)
Write errors: 0 soft, 0 hard
Read errors: 0 soft, 1 hard
Checksum errors: 0
Any clues would be wonderful.
Cheers,
Alex
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