Bug 411131 - st tape driver fails to stream Quantum VS160 after drive power cycle
Summary: st tape driver fails to stream Quantum VS160 after drive power cycle
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Reported: 2007-12-04 21:52 UTC by starlight
Modified: 2012-06-20 13:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 13:19:22 UTC
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Description starlight 2007-12-04 21:52:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

After power cycle of tape drive, 'st' driver gets stupid and
does something that prevents Quantum VS160 from streaming.
Requires reboot to work around the issue.  'stinit' does
not help.

It's apparent that some of the recent maintenance work done
on the 'st' driver has introduced regressions.  I'm thinking
I may revert to the version from circa RHEL 4 U1, which I
recall worked just fine.

tape drive:  Quantium VS160, firmware rev 44
scsi adapter:  Adaptec 39320A
Comment 1 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 13:19:22 UTC 
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