Re: 2.9.29.2: ide-tape: panic when probing device at boot

From: Jonathan Woithe
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 00:39:08 EST


> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:45:12AM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > Has there been any movement on this in recent months? I gave 2.6.30 a whirl
> > on the machine when that was released but it still gave major problems with
> > the ide-tape driver. Is 2.6.32 likely to be improved? If so I'll make
> > arrangements to test that version.
>
> Yes, please do test 2.6.32 to see whether it fixes your problem. If you still
> get that oops, please apply the following patch and send me the _whole_ dmesg
> output of the machine.

Ok, will do. Since it is a production machine and I've got linux.conf.au
coming up it may be a couple of weeks before I get to do the test. I'll
advise the outcome once I have tested it.

Robert Hancock wrote:
> You could also try using libata instead of IDE drivers and see if they
> work any better for you..

Yes, a good suggestion (I'm not sure why I neglected to try that initially).
I'll test that too and report back.

Regards
jonathan
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