Thanks- actually, I'd tried that. After much fuss I have managed to make the ide-scsi module work. I am assuming I'm taking a performance hit here but my tests thus far seem mostly posative (a few restore errors but nothing earth shattering). Does anyone recommend a better backup package (commercial is fine as long as it's less than US $100) than Taper. -mab On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:
bartosh@heretic.mabaleb.org wrote:
Drive is Tecmar 20Gb, system is 6.4 w/ suse kernel, drive is correctly recognized by bios @ boot time.
If I leave the ide-tape in kern, I die @ boot. Using a module I get this w/ insmod:
Sep 22 01:13:55 heretic kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: TECMAR TRAVAN NS20 rev A245 Sep 22 01:13:55 heretic kernel: divide error: 0000 Sep 22 01:13:55 heretic kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 22 01:13:55 heretic kernel: EIP: 0010:[eepro100:unregister_cb_hook+233860/15729460]
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Sep 22 01:13:55 heretic kernel: Code: f7 fb 89 c6 89 b1 80 13 00 00 89 b1 84 13 00 00 8d 14 36 89
I have recompiled the mod from suse sources with the same results.
The drive does begin to show up in proc:
root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/ capacity driver identify media model name settings root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/capacity 2147483647 root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/driver ide-tape version 1.16f root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/identify
root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/media tape root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/model TRAVAN NS20 root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/name ht0 root@heretic:/Local/Users/bartosh > cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw
But says Device Not Configured w/ mt or taper.
My only suggestion is to get the latest (or just simply another) kernel and compile it yourself. It may make a difference. SuSE support have already said they won't support you, so you've got nothing to lose if you recompile the kernel.
Good luck and I hope you get it fixed, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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