Thanks for the report. By mistake my latest patch decreased the
ide-tape irq timeout to 0.6 seconds instead of increasing it
to 60 seconds.. The following patch will fix this.
Gadi
--- linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c~ Wed Dec 30 23:27:40 1998
+++ linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c Fri Jan 8 08:30:58 1999
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
/*
* Some tape drives require a long irq timeout
*/
-#define IDETAPE_WAIT_CMD 60
+#define IDETAPE_WAIT_CMD (60 * HZ)
/*
* DSC timings.
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Matthew T Kohner wrote:
> Seagate TR-4 (CONNER CTT8000-A) hooked up to a Acculogic sIDE-2/CD
> isa card.
> under 2.2.0pre1 and earlier, works fine.
> didn't try pre2
> under 2.2.0pre[3,4,5] tar gives the errors
>
> [root@x39-22 /root]# tar -cvf /dev/ht0 mail/
> ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
> mail/
> mail/sent-mail
> mail/saved-messages
> ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
> tar: Cannot write to /dev/ht0: Input/output error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
>
> and other errors like
> Jan 6 21:04:23 x39-22 kernel: hdh: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jan 6 21:04:23 x39-22 kernel: ide3: unexpected interrupt, status=0xff,
> count=2
> Jan 6 21:04:23 x39-22 kernel: hdh: ATAPI reset complete
> Jan 6 21:04:24 x39-22 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key =
> 2, asc
> = 4, ascq = 1
> Jan 6 21:04:25 x39-22 last message repeated 100 times
> Jan 6 21:04:25 x39-22 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =
> 2, asc
> = 4, ascq = 1
> Jan 6 21:04:25 x39-22 kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
> Jan 6 21:04:25 x39-22 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key =
> 2, asc
> = 4, ascq = 1
>
>
>
> I'm not a kernel hacker maybe so someone else has some idea what's
> happening here. If there's any revelant info I've forgotting, just ask
> tia
> -Matt
> ------------------------------------------------
> Matt Kohner kohn0035@tc.umn.edu
> Comp Sci major at U of Minnesota
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