After upgrading from kernel-2.2.16-3 to kernel-2.2.17-14, our tape drive no longer works. Equipment: IBM Netfinity 5500 with ServeRAID controller and DLT 4000 drive. ServeRAID bios: 3.10.05 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (testing with tar) 1. tar -tvf /dev/st0 Actual Results: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Device not configured tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Expected Results: A listing of all files on the tape should be printed
If you do a "modprobe st" as root and then try the tar again do things work as expected?
The st-module is automatically loaded by the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit -script. The tape is detected when the scsi-bus is scanned: Vendor: Quantum Model: DLT4000 Rev: D473 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Later, when the startuip script loads the st-module, the following is logged: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 1, id 5, lun 0 So everything looks ok, but it dont work :(
I've downgraded the ips driver to the one that is supplied with kernel 2.2.17 vanilla. The tapestation now works as expected. So there seems to be some incompability between ips version 4.00.06 (in 2.2.17) and 4.20.20 (2.2.17-14 and 2.2.18)
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