unable to read from IDE tape
A message that is not in the archive (sent off-list or not yet received): [email protected]
Quoted 10 lines
Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I get an I/O error, and there doesn't even seem to be any attempt by the driver to read the tape. This is currently happening under 2.4.5, and has been happening undeer at least 2.4.2 and 2.4.3, I think it was also happening under 2.4.1 as well.
[...]
Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
No good thoughts, the driver is simply horrible... You might be able to pick some interesting info by running with tape->debug_level set to 4 (There is an option, but I forget what. Just assign 4 to it after
a call to idetape_add_settings. Be prepared for a lots of tracing.
If you come up with any patches, post them to the list.
-- Pete