On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Eckhard Jokisch wrote:

> Am Don, 30 Nov 2000 schrieben Sie:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:26:09PM +0000, Eckhard Jokisch wrote:
> > > 
> > > I tried the ide-tape driver for several weeks now. And after some time during
> > > writing or reading tar stops because of errors.
> > > 
> > > Error messages are:
> > > Nov 30 15:32:20  kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key =  0,
> > > asc =  0, ascq =  2 Nov 30 15:32:25 eckhard last message repeated 1000 times
> > > Nov 30 15:32:25  kernel: ide-tape: ht0: unrecovered read error on logical block 
>number 461706, skipping

You have to love the new ARD media...

> ....
> 
> > I ran into such problems since februari or so and have been in contact with
> > the ide-tape developers and Onstream about it. 
> > I recently volunteered to try improving the end of media handling (basicly by
> > implementing early warning EOM) but so far have not had much time to work on it...
> 
> Where can I start to do that? 
> Can you tell me how I can set the debug_level to 3 or 5?
> Why do I get this errors on make modules when I compile the driver with
> IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE to 1 in ide-tape.c?: gcc -D__KERNEL__
> -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
> -malign-functions=4  -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o ide-tape.o ide-tape.c
> ide-tape.c: In function `idetape_sense_key_verbose': ide-tape.c:1395: warning:
> function returns address of local variable ide-tape.c: In function
> `idetape_command_key_verbose': ide-tape.c:1413: parse error before `case'
> ide-tape.c:1424: warning: function returns address of local variable make[2]:
> *** [ide-tape.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/src/2.4-test11/drivers/ide' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ide] Error 2 make[1]:
> Leaving directory `/src/2.4-test11/drivers' make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2

This I can fix, but the decoding noise makers are still in progress.

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development

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