Osst-users Discuss issues with the use of osst, the OnStream tape driver for Linux.
This page coordinates the development of a Linux tape driver for the OnStream If you use the driver to backup your data and need to of the osst drivers can be.
Help setting up new tape autoloader 17 posts shizakapayou. Wise 109.995799 Driver osst needs updating - please use bus_type methods 109.997014.
There is an auxiliary tape driver for tape The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives can not be driven by the standard st driver, but instead need this special osst.
OnStream Linux SCSI tape driver development
This page coordinates the development of a Linux tape driver for the OnStream SC-30/SC-50/DI-30/FW-30/USB-30 devices. The target, osst, is a kernel driver that provides an st-compatible interface to the userspace. The driver is put under GPL and submitted to the kernel folks for inclusion into the mainstream kernel. There is an IDE tape driver in the kernel with support for the OnStream DI-30, which uses the same basic format for the tapes defined by the ADR spec. It was written by Gadi Oxman. The OnStream functionality in ide-tape has not been maintained though, so its use is not recommended. This project is a joint effort of indiviuals that want to get their OnStream ADR SCSI / IDE / IEEE1394 / USB tape drive to run with Linux and any Backup Software available on Linux. The primary author and maintainer is Willem Riede. We were supported by OnStream and SuSE. Unfortunately OnStream has gone bankrupt and the development has now moved to SourceForge . Status. The driver currently supports 2.6.x and 2.4.y kernels. A 2.2 version is also available, but has not been updated with some of the latest fixes. Osst comes standard with all recent kernels from kernel.org or your favorite distribution. Download the latest version (which may not yet be merged at kernel.org) here . DISCLAIMER: If you test it, you do it on your own risk. If the driver crashes your kernel (unlikely, but possible) and you loose important data, you are on your own. If you use the driver to backup your data and need to restore it later, but fail, you are on your own again. If something bad happens to you because of this driver, don't even try to make somebody responsible for this. There is no warranty of whatever kind. In short: The GNU GPL applies. 2005-01-01 Osst-0.99.3 released. Improves error handling of polling problems on DI-30. Solid implementation of sysfs support, now hotplug+udev can manage the osst device nodes. Coding style changes to accommodate current preferences of the Linux kernel team. 2003-12-29 Osst-0.99.2 released. Provides initial sysfs support which replaces the /proc support in 0.99.1. For each attached drive, a directory with attributes is created: #ls /sys/class/osst/osst0 ADR_rev BOT_frame capacity dev device driver EOD_frame file_count media_version
Hello, at the time the kernel is probing the scsi devices the changer module is blocking the startup because the tape library need more than 120 sec to scan and map all tapes in the drive. So after 120 sec the hung_task_timeout_secs message is shown here: [ 31.839657] Driver 'osst' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 32.032601] scsi 1:0:1:0: Sequential-Access COMPAQ SuperDLT1 2D2D PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 32.032642] target1:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation [ 32.035151] target1:0:1: wide...
How to use sysctl setting as kernel boot parameter. 31.839657 Driver osst needs updating - please use bus_type methods 32.032601 scsi 1:0:1:0.
2.6.25-rc2 Drivers sd, sr, st, osst need updating - please use bus_type methods. Tilman Schmidt Wed, 20 Feb 2008 :21 -0800.
At the time the kernel is probing the scsi devices the changer module is blocking the startup because the tape library need more than Driver osst needs updating.
How to use sysctl setting as kernel boot parameter?