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Problems with SCSI tape in 2.6.0-test6

DISCUSSION Petr Cisar 2 participants 3 messages Oct 6, 2003 2 messages not in the archive

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Hi all

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.

Thanks for all comments

Petr Cisar

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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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Thanks a lot, I used tar with -b 1024 and it works.

Petr