From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 Description of problem: Changes were recently accepted in kernel.org's 2.6.14 kernel to add reference counting to the SCSI tape driver. Without these changes, surprise removal of the HBA connected to a tape drive is problematic. It would be great if Red Hat could backport this functionality. Discussion of these changes is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112058392531041&w=2 I'll try to attach patches against your U2 sources. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.9-17.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
Created attachment 119164 [details] patch for st.c against RHEL4 U2
Created attachment 119165 [details] patch for st.h against RHEL4 U2
A slightly different but functionally equivalent version of these changes has already been incorporated in the RHEL4 kernel. Closing this bug out.