Loss of SCSI tape reliability with 2.4 kernel

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:08:52 EDT
Bill Freeman said:

>	Does anyone know of issues with SCSI and/or st with 2.4
>kernels, and, hopefully, what to do about it?
>
[...snip...]
>	The problem occurs with both the 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.9-12 i686
>kernels from RH (the two that I've tried).  The -34 is the latest
>update.
>
>	Any thoughts?

Try a more recent kernel.  I've run plenty of SCSI tape drives with 
2.4, but they've all been 2.4.16 and >.

It's well accepted that <2.4.15 were flaky and unpredictable, not to 
mention suffer from the VM-of-the-month battles :)
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Seeya,
Paul