[parisc-linux] Kernel Panic

[Grant Grundler]

"marc " wrote:
> It looks like the st is no longer a loadable kernel module?

Right. It's not:
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y

See arch/parisc/debian-configs/* for default configs.

> st0: Error on write filemark.
> st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sns = 70  4
> ASC=44 ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x12 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x
>   44 
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xa3 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
> tar: /dev/st0: Warning: Cannot close: Input/output error

Seagate (and other vendors) publishes the subset of SCSI spec they implement.
It includes Sense Key/ASC/ASCQ encodings.
Look for "scsi2_seagate.pdf" on www.seagate.com web site.

Sense Key  = 0x04 == "Hardware Error"
ASC/ASCQ = 0x44/0 == "Internal Target Failure"

You need to find the programming manual for your tape device
and hopefully it explains exactly what this means.

grant