How to force a bus reset?

[Doug Ledford]

Randy Gobbel wrote:

> the other messages from tape drive owners, many different types of
> sequential-access devices are having problems--so there's definitely a bug in
> that version of the aic7xxx driver. 

It's not the aic7xxx driver, it's the st.c driver.  It fails to clear and
error condition once encountered in certain versions of the kernel.  I would
know more, but I no longer have a tape drive and don't really have any means
of testing changes I might make.  I'll try and wrestle a tape drive from
somewhere....

> The driver in kernel 2.2.0-pre4 was at
> version 5.1.7, don't know what's in 2.2.0-pre5.  I had heard that there were
> some changes post-5.1.4 that should address problems with tape drives, but I
> haven't yet managed to build a 2.2.0-preanything kernel that will boot on my
> system, so haven't had a chance to try it.  Has anyone seen any improvements in
> tape drive operation with these newer drivers?
> 
> -Randy
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