On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:41:56PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Sean Carmody wrote:
> > happens, the tape drive decides it's busy (any attempts
> > to access it with mt, for example, respond with "Device
> > or resource busy") and taper does into an uninterruptable
> I used to use Taper with my Colorado IDE drive. Ditch it.
Taper may have its problems (I've never used it), but it's not the
cause of Sean's problem. I have the same problem at home with a SCSI
tape drive using tar. After upgrading my machine at work to RH7.0, I
found this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint:
# If a SCSI tape has been detected, load the st module unconditionally
# since many SCSI tapes don't deal well with st being loaded and unloaded
if [ -f /proc/scsi/scsi ] && grep -q 'Type: Sequential-Access' /proc/scsi/scsi
2>/dev/null ; then
if grep -qv ' 9 st' /proc/devices ; then
if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ] ; then
# Try to load the module. If it fails, ignore it...
insmod -p st >/dev/null 2>&1 && modprobe st >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
fi
So I'm going to try having the st module loaded permanently and see if
that makes a difference. Your tape drive may suffer from a similar
problem, so try loading the appropriate module(s) at boot time and
leaving them loaded.
Cheers,
John
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