Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:33:36 +0200 (IST) | From | Gadi Oxman <> | Subject | Re: ide-tape/ide-card broken in 2.2pre3 and greater |
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Hi,
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 > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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