Bug 36628 - I/O error reading HP Colorado 5GB tape drive
Summary: I/O error reading HP Colorado 5GB tape drive
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pete Zaitcev
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-19 11:45 UTC by Jim Andreu
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-11-05 16:38:14 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Listing of dmesg (10.11 KB, text/plain)
2001-04-19 12:09 UTC, Jim Andreu
no flags Details
dmesg with ide=nodma - same error (6.43 KB, text/plain)
2001-04-19 12:28 UTC, Jim Andreu
no flags Details
May be the fix (3.53 KB, patch)
2001-09-27 21:13 UTC, Pete Zaitcev
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jim Andreu 2001-04-19 11:45:37 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)


tar , bru allow creation of backup tape files but get an I/O error 
pc=8 key=5 asc=2c ascq=0 when trying to read tape. tape can be read from 
any 2.2 kernel

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. tar cf /dev/ht0 /etc
2. tar tf /dev/ht0
3.
	

Actual Results:  Error described in Description 

Expected Results:  Listing of tape tar file

error is as follows on a valid tar file 
tar tf /dev/ht0
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc=8, key=5, asc=2c, ascq=0 
tar: /dev/ht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-04-19 11:50:21 UTC
What SCSI controller is this tapedrive connected to ?

Comment 2 Jim Andreu 2001-04-19 11:54:01 UTC
tape drive is connected as a master to a standard ide1 - running on a va 503+ MB
128 MB ram - amd k6-II 450 cpu.
error remains when on ide0 as slave or ide1 as slave.


Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-04-19 12:01:10 UTC
Doh :)
What IDE controller / motherboard is this ?
(or just paste the output of dmesg )

Comment 4 Jim Andreu 2001-04-19 12:09:47 UTC
Created attachment 15744 [details]
Listing of dmesg

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2001-04-19 12:14:15 UTC
Could you try booting with "ide=nodma" on the lilo commandline ?
7.0 didn't enable DMA, 7.1 does and if there is something wrong there this
should make it work again.

Comment 6 Jim Andreu 2001-04-19 12:28:15 UTC
Created attachment 15745 [details]
dmesg with ide=nodma - same error

Comment 7 Dale Wisard 2001-05-16 17:40:33 UTC
I have a very similar problem as this (bug 36628).  In addition my system 
freezes and requires power cycling/re-boot to recover.

I'm using a Gateway select 650 w/ AMD K6/650MHz processor and 256 MB memory.  
An HP Colorado 5GB tape drive on IDE:1.1 (slave), IDE:1.0 is cdrom (master).  
The following is "mt" command output.
# mt -f /dev/ht0 stat
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (0):

If I try to "tar" or "dump" to this device the system locks up.

I can "echo hello > /dev/ht0" and it seems to work (tape moves, etc.), but
if I try to "cat /dev/ht0" I get the following error.
cat: /dev/ht0: Input/output error.
It seems any attempt to read the device fails.

Thanks,
Dale Wisard


Comment 8 Need Real Name 2001-06-02 03:32:55 UTC
I have the same proble with Exabyte TR4 IDE tape drive on channel 2 as slave.

tar cvf /dev/ht0 /etc

works fine. Tape spins and files are listed. But

tar tf /dev/ht0

Return nothing. Also

dump -0 -f /dev/ht0 /home

Runs, dumps, and reports no errors. But

restore -f /dev/ht0

Results in 'Tape read error: Success'!!!



Comment 9 Need Real Name 2001-06-10 16:54:57 UTC
Priority of this bug should be HIGH since it breaks backup system, preventing 
migration to 7.1 for production.

Comment 10 Joel Flaker 2001-06-19 15:13:56 UTC
I have the same problem. I have tryed a Segate IDE Travan and a HP SCSI Travan. 
I cannot dd ; tar or cpio to the drive. It seems to write but cannot get a full 
read. I get a premature end of archive. This is a very high Priority. I cannot 
get good backups.


Comment 11 Joel Flaker 2001-06-19 15:36:10 UTC
This is the same problem as bug# 38404. Please review comments and merge the 
two problems. 


Comment 12 Mark Rusk 2001-06-19 16:18:14 UTC
I have noticed that the ide-tape driver does not act like a char device, but as
a block device. If you write or read Multiples of the tape devices buffer size,
all is ok. But if you read anything that is either a multiple of the block size
and 1 byte (or 512 or 1k), you get a read error, and the data is not returned.  
If you uyse the ide-scsi module and access the tape as an st? device it works
like a good char device.




Comment 13 Tesfamariam Michael 2001-08-23 05:39:07 UTC
This issue exists with Fairfax Beta3. I will test if anything has changed in 
Fairfax RC1.

Comment 14 Michael K. Johnson 2001-08-23 21:18:22 UTC
We think this may well be fixed in Roswell2 -- we pulled a fix from the
2.2 kernel into 2.4 that might be related.  Please do test, thanks.


Comment 15 Tesfamariam Michael 2001-09-12 22:57:28 UTC
With Fairfax, /dev/ht0 can't be used. Trying to tar to /dev/ht0 generates an 
error message stating 'device /dev/ht0 can't be open' or something to that 
nature. This forces users to use /dev/st0 device with ide-scsi driver.

Comment 16 Michael K. Johnson 2001-09-13 14:25:40 UTC
Pete, can you try to reproduce this with your tape drive?  The previous
patch does not appear to have fixed everything.

Comment 17 Pete Zaitcev 2001-09-13 17:07:34 UTC
Nope, my TR5 works great. The problem is generic
to Linux, I am getting many reports from linux-kernel.
Apparently, I was the lust guy who looked into the driver,
so the community turned to me, duh... Stay tuned.

Comment 18 Michael K. Johnson 2001-09-13 17:23:42 UTC
Mark, can you send us one of the offending tape drives?  Unless
it is a TR5, in which case it's a more specific problem that might
have to do with the IDE chipset or something like that.

Comment 19 Pete Zaitcev 2001-09-27 21:13:52 UTC
Created attachment 32818 [details]
May be the fix

Comment 20 Pete Zaitcev 2001-09-27 21:28:08 UTC
What jcyr and joel report has nothing
to do with the bug. Fortunately, I can reproduce that one.
It also may be related to what Mark mentions, with exception.
I think it is not possible to read less than a basic block of
512 bytes, but certainly, you ought to be able to read less
than the buffer size, in multiplies of 512.
Opening a new one for them in a moment.

tesfamariam_michael reports yet another problem,
which happens when opening for WRITE, not READ (as far as I can
tell: he neglected to attach the command and its output).

I DO NOT ACCEPT FALSE DUPLICATES FOR THIS BUG.


Comment 21 Pete Zaitcev 2001-10-10 22:28:31 UTC
Rawhide kernel version linux-2.4.9-4.1. Will push upstream.


Comment 22 Matt Domsch 2001-11-05 16:38:08 UTC
Trimming the cc: list.  jim, can you close this issue now that it 
appears a solution (and released errata kernels) have been released?


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