Hello folks
I'm looking after a Debian-based file- and backup-server for a client.
It has a Sony IDE tape drive, which works fine, except after a (rare)
reboot, when any attempt to access the drive fails with a "kernel NULL
pointer dereference" type of message, mentioning "EIP is at
idetape_chrdev_open+0x3f/0x15d [ide_tape]".
The problem goes a way after these commands:
modprobe ide_generic
modprobe -r ide_scsi
But I need to automate this at boot time, and because it's a production
machine that I can't reboot without disruption, it's difficult to test.
Are there any opinions on whether the following in /etc/modprobe.d/local
is likely to work?
install ide_tape \
/sbin/modprobe -r ide_scsi; \
/sbin/modprobe ide_generic; \
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ide_tape
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
