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Re: Scsi tape - returns ENXIO after an error (aha1542) [PATCH]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Fish)
Thu Nov 12 16:23:19 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:41:14 -0700
From: Richard Fish <rjf@estinc.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
CC: Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Peter Waltenberg <peterw@dascom.com>
Ok, here is my second attempt. This patch will need to be applied to
the original aha1542.c file, so be sure to either back out the last
patch or extract an original aha1542.c from the kernel source.
Basically, now if the device is a tape drive and the result byte looks
like something that st should be able to handle, we'll just pass the
error up to st.
Harald Koenig wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> > Some weeks ago, there was discussion on linux-kernel about a problem
> > with SCSI tape drives connected to a 1542 being put offline after any
> > kind of error. Since it still occurs in the 2.1.127 kernel, I'm
> > assuming there was no fix for this.
>
> thanks! I just tried your patch with 2.1.126 (since 2.1.127 frequently
> locks up for me in scheduler). it seems to fix only half of the problem,
> but the more important half;)
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