ide-tape errors filling up syslog

2007-04-18 Thread Richard
Hello, I have a machine with a SONY SDX-420C tape drive. I have backed up to the tape and retrieved data from the tape however syslog is being filled up with following errors : Apr 19 09:27:16 fileserver kernel: BUG: warning at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:47/dma_map_sg() Apr 19 09:27:16 files

Re: Re: ide tape errors

2003-10-23 Thread Christopher Marino-Cebulski
Hello, I had a similar problem with a Seagate STT3401A Travan ide tape drive. It was reporting: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, ... After some research, I found the solution on Seagates web site: http://www.certance.com/support/kb/tape/faq/travan40_redhat.html # rmmod ide-tape # rmmod ide-scsi # modp

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-27 Thread Helios de Creisquer
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:40:04PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > alsosprachJeromeAcksJr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2001.12.23.2021 +0100]: > > To get my ide tape to work, I had to add > > > > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > > > to lilo.conf. > > that did change things. now when i insert

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.2021 +0100]: > To get my ide tape to work, I had to add > > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > to lilo.conf. that did change things. now when i insert a tape, it takes a lot longer to stop the motors after the initial winding, but now neither of

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shi

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 11:05, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? > > good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all > TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shipped with the drive though,

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 07:30, martin f krafft wrote: > piper:/dev# mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind > mt: /dev/ht0: Device or resource busy > piper:/dev# > > gives: > > ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open > ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 3, asc = 30, a

ide tape errors

2001-12-20 Thread martin f krafft
loading ide-tape.o with a seagate STT2A tape drive on hdb gives this into dmesg: ide-tape: Dumping the results of the MODE SENSE packet command ide-tape: Mode Parameter Header: ide-tape: Mode Data Length - 23 ide-tape: Medium Type - 0 ide-tape: Device Specific Parameter - 144 ide-tape: Block D