IDE woes

["Chris Hilts" <chilts@birdbrained.org>]

Whilst trying to use mondo to make a system backup onto a Seagate IDE tape
drive, I got the following mess in my syslog:

Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported
ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
Oct  3 14:53:35 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key = 
2, asc =  4, ascq =  1
Oct  3 14:53:38 wakeup last message repeated 180 times
Oct  3 14:53:38 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 
2, asc =  4, ascq =  1
Oct  3 14:53:38 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
Oct  3 14:53:38 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 
2, asc =  4, ascq =  1
Oct  3 14:53:38 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 
2, asc =  4, ascq =  1
Oct  3 14:54:49 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
Oct  3 14:54:55 wakeup kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
Oct  3 14:58:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Oct  3 14:58:35 wakeup kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04

If anyone has any advice, I'm willing to listen.  I've fought with this
machine by myself too much lately.
-- 
Chris Hilts
chilts@birdbrained.org