Bug#421443: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: ide tape broken and ide scsi disabled, ide tapes unuseable
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Severity: important
Kernel detects ide tape
ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: Seagate STT20000A rev 8A51
ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: 1000KBps, 6*54kB buffer, 9720kB pipeline, 108ms tDSC, DMA
After which all userland utilities fail to access it or issue any
commands to it.
The drive mostly works using ide-tape in 2.6.14 and 2.6.16 on write (some
read problems). Works fine in 2.6.16 using ide-scsi read/write.
Frankly, anyone who has had to use ide-tapes knows that Linus can go get
lost with his statement about the IDE tape driver now being a perfect
replacement for ide-scsi (multiple times on lkm since 2003). It isn't.
In fact I have yet to see a kernel release where it works fine.
So disabling IDE-SCSI is not nice. That is the only means to use ide
tape drives at the moment.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
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