-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/07 04:43, Sebastiaan Veldhuisen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running debian Etch on a no name server with a Quantum DLT-v4 SATA > drive. All my backups on tape are failing with kernel errors (see > below). The tape is fresh, so it isn't a bad medium I guess. > > After googling I tried appending "irqpoll acpi=noirq", but that didn't > make any difference. > > Any suggestions? > > ------------------------------- > Apr 1 10:39:42 debian kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) > Apr 1 10:39:42 debian kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 > SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Apr 1 10:39:42 debian kernel: ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) > Apr 1 10:39:42 debian kernel: ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x5 stat > 0x51 err 0x51 (timeout) > Apr 1 10:39:49 debian kernel: ata2: port is slow to respond, please be > patient > Apr 1 10:40:12 debian kernel: ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs) > Apr 1 10:40:12 debian kernel: ata2: soft resetting port > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 > SControl 300) > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: ata2: EH complete > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: st0: Current [descriptor]: sense key: > Medium Error > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: Additional sense: Address mark not > found for data field > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense > descriptors (in hex): > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: 72 03 13 00 00 00 00 0e 09 0e 00 > 51 00 03 00 00 > Apr 1 10:40:13 debian kernel: 00 00 00 00 a0 51 > Apr 1 10:40:25 debian kernel: st0: Current: sense key: Unit Attention > Apr 1 10:40:25 debian kernel: Additional sense: Scsi bus reset > occurred > Apr 1 10:41:08 debian kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) > Apr 1 10:41:08 debian kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 > SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Apr 1 10:41:08 debian kernel: ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) > Apr 1 10:41:08 debian kernel: ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x5 stat > 0x51 err 0x51 (timeout) > Apr 1 10:41:15 debian kernel: ata2: port is slow to respond, please be > patient > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs) > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: ata2: soft resetting port > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 > SControl 300) > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: ata2: EH complete > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: st0: Current [descriptor]: sense key: > Medium Error > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: Additional sense: Address mark not > found for data field > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense > descriptors (in hex): > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: 72 03 13 00 00 00 00 0e 09 0e 00 > 51 00 03 00 00 > Apr 1 10:41:39 debian kernel: 00 00 00 00 a0 51
Maybe the SATA controller isn't compatible with the tape drive? Or vice versa... Maybe you need a SCSI version of the tape drive? (Being a long-time user of DLT drives, SATA DLT IV kinda gives me the willies.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGEQI4S9HxQb37XmcRAh+bAKCzdt8USMXWUEbFFeZwgf2CfkF2kACgjXqp gMQlK7ENCqD55OiFdaq1OTo= =hFXf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
