2.4.21-pre1 broke the ide-tape driver
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Kernel 2.4.21-pre1 broke the ide-tape driver: the driver now hangs during initialisation. 2.2 kernels (with Andre's IDE patch) and 2.4 up to 2.4.20 do not have this problem. My box has a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive as hdd; hdc is a Philips CD-RW, and the controller is ICH2 (i850 chipset).
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Addendum: this patch fixes the init-time hang, and ide-tape does seem to work fine, but 'rmmod ide-tape' oopses -- 2.4.20-ac2 also oopses on 'rmmod ide-tape'.
I don't unfortunately have any ide-tape devices. I'll take a look though
I can trigger the oops by a simple 'modprobe ide-tape; rmmod ide-tape' even on boxes without ide-tape devices.