Re: FC3: ide tape problem with kernel 2.6.10

[Craig Goodyear <craig48 swbell net>]

> > I am using a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive for backup.  Prior to 
> > the kernel update to 2.6.10, tar and dump both worked without any 
> > problems using this tape drive.
> >
> > Since the kernel update, tar and dump appear to write the files to the 
> > tape drive: no error messages are generated during the write.
> > However, I am not able to restore any of the backup files to the hard 
> > disk.
>
> I have found that I can get the tape drive to work if DMA is turned off. 
> The tape is setup as hdd during the boot process.  However, there 
> is no entry created in /dev for hdd.  The only way that I know to 
> disable DMA is for all IDE drives, using ide=nodma.  Since /dev/hdd is 
> missing, I cannot figure out a way to use hdparm.
>
> Is there a way to turn off the DMA for only the tape drive?

How do I address this problem, or is these a bug in the 2.6.10 kernel???

Craig