Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80091
LTO tape drive errors with kernel 2.4.9-e.10
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: With an Adaptec 78xx controller and LTO tape drive, I get the following errors: Dec 17 10:37:59 marx kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 02 00 00 Dec 17 10:53:04 marx kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 02 00 00 Dec 17 11:08:23 marx kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 02 00 00 the tape drive hangs and is unable to write. The hardware works fine and was working Redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use cpio or tar 2. 3. Actual Results: device time out Dec 17 11:08:23 marx kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 02 00 00 Expected Results: things to backup Additional info: I had this same problem with kernels before 2.4.18-17. I was forced to load AS2.1 on this box for Oracle support and now the tape drive it broken.
makisara has put the solution for the EOF bug at: http://www.kolumbus.fi/kai.makisara/st-eot.html www.linuxtapecert.org has more info
We cant fix this at this stage of the AS2.1 lifecycle. Please re-open this bug if its still a problem for you. Larry Woodman