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EXABYTE 8505 and aix7xxx driver problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walt Bigelow)
Wed Feb 4 23:20:26 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:06:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
All:
I seem to have a problem using my EXABYTE 8505 tape drive. I use the
aix7xxx (AHA-3940W) driver and a fresh linux 2.0.33 kernel. Basically
what happens is whenever I access the drive /dev/st0 (which shows up at
boot time) the process that accesses is goes into a uninterupttible sleep,
and I cannot kill the process. I did an strace on mt rewind, and it seems
to stop at the same place each time...
open("/dev/st0", O_RDOLNY) = 3
ioctl(3, MTIOCTOP.......
This happens with both mt and tar. Also one of the 3 lights on the face
of the drive goes steady after executing the mt command. No scsi bus
reset occours, and my termination is set properly. This drive works fine
on all other systems, including my SGI and accom DDR.
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks,
Walt
