Re: IDE tape problem in 2.2.17 on Intel SMP

2000-11-13 Thread jim
Thanks for the info. We're running 2.2.17 from www.kernel.org w/o any patches. Jim > > Greetings! You're not running the ide patches, are you? We're > running 2.2.17 with the patches, and have found that we must use the > ide-scsi interface to get verifiable backups. We still get apparently

Re: IDE tape problem in 2.2.17 on Intel SMP

2000-11-13 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! You're not running the ide patches, are you? We're running 2.2.17 with the patches, and have found that we must use the ide-scsi interface to get verifiable backups. We still get apparently harmless error messages in the logs though. Here are our modules.conf entries: pre-install i

IDE tape problem in 2.2.17 on Intel SMP

2000-11-12 Thread jim
I wrote on Nov 2nd about IDE tapes no longer working in 2.2.17. The write seems to work fine, but the verify pass causes read errors and a tar abort. I tried changing the priority of the tar process to higher than all others (it was running as a very low priority job and I thought that might be

IDE tape problem in 2.2.17 on Intel SMP

2000-11-02 Thread jim
Hello Gadi - On Oct 27th we upgraded from 2.2.16 to the 2.2.17 Intel Linux kernel on our production web server (450MHz dual SMP, Tyan 1532(?) motherboard, 1GB ram). We have a Seagate 20GB IDE tape backup on this machine and do backups every day. The backups had been working fine, and the backup