This corrected the problem on 2.4.29. Thanks Marcelo and all for your help.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2005 12:04 To: Mark Yeatman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29 On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -0000, Mark Yeatman wrote: > Hi > > Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. > > Thanks > > Mark > > Detail.... > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after backup to allow verify and > causing illegal seek error > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > On backup the tape drive is reporting the following error and failing > it's backups. > > tar: /dev/st0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seek > > I have traced this back to failing at an upgrade of the kernel to 2.4.29 > on Feb 8th. The backups have not worked since. Replacement Drives have > been tried and cables to no avail. I noticed in the the changelog that a > patch by Solar Designer to the Scsi tape return code had been made. v2.6 also contains the same problem BTW. Try this: --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c.orig 2005-03-02 09:02:13.637158144 -0300 +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c 2005-03-02 09:02:20.208159200 -0300 @@ -3778,7 +3778,6 @@ read: st_read, write: st_write, ioctl: st_ioctl, - llseek: no_llseek, open: st_open, flush: st_flush, release: st_release, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
