C4405 rev B and linux

[shane miller_2]

Sir or Madam,

I have an IDE internal 20GB Colorado travan
drive C4405 rev B. In linux, using RH9+ say,
I enable ide-tape during kernel compile. Doing
a 'tar cvf /dev/ht0 ...' activates the drive
as expected. However, duing boot there are a
number of errors. Also doing a tar will cause
the tar process to get stuck inside the kernel.
I think it needs a firmware upgrade.

questions:
1. does C4405B work with linux
2. does it need a firmware update?
3. does QIC control need to be enabled
in addition to ide-tape in kernel setup?

regards,
shane
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from dmesg:

hdd: attached ide-tape driver.
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: (IO,CoD != (0,1) while issuing a packet command, retrying <10s of these follow>
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ide-tape: (IO,CoD != (0,1) while issuing a packet command, ignoring
hdd: lost interrupt
ide-tape: CoD != 0 in idetape_pc_intr
hdd: DMA disabled
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ide-tape: Can't get block descriptor
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 650KBps, 13*32kB buffer, 6336kB pipeline, 100ms tDSC
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